GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Superannuation

SMSFs with higher exposures to equities would have done better than most through the opening months of 2012, according to the assessment of two of the leading superannuat...

Financial planning

Australia's current financial markets' regulatory structure gives it an advantage compared to the byzantine structures in other markets, according to Nick Sherry....

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched an interactive website that aims to map the changing goals of Australia in real-time....

Editorial

The global financial crisis and heightened volatility have brought defensive funds back into the spotlight. Andrew Hair discusses the characteristics of true defensive as...

Funds management

Investor sentiment has improved but remains in negative territory, according to CoreData's Investor Confidence Index....

Financial planning

Specialist superannuation and investment platform provider Wealthtrac is continuing to market its services to independent financial planners, having rebuilt FUM back to l...

Financial planning

Company collapses have risen by 117 per cent to 1,123, reflecting a continuing 'lag effect' from the economic woes of the global financial crisis, according to research b...

Superannuation

Superannuation and investment platform provider Wealthtrac claims it has grown FUM back to levels close to those achieved prior to the GFC....

Editorial

Having clients believe that placing money in bank deposits constitutes investing will have a detrimental effect on both the financial advice industry and the end consumer...

Funds management

Despite many investors' negative experience during the GFC, Australian Unity's Mark Pratt and Cameron Dickman say property fits the gap needed to create an income stream ...

Editorial

There is considerable asset allocation bias with SMSF trustees. This is likely to lead to disappointing performance at best, and widespread disasters at worst, according ...

Editorial

Piers Bolger examines the rise of the Australian dollar and its impact on investment decisions....

Funds management

Simon Ho, Triple 3 Partners director says investing in volatility is not a passing trend but constitutes a revolutionary new way of investing....

Editorial

Economist Matt Drennan says it’s time for Australia's political leaders to acknowledge that our relative economic good fortune is attributable as much to luck as good man...

Financial planning

The number of companies entering liquidation is continuing to break records, with 10,544 companies entering some form of insolvency administration in the year to January ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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