GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Financial planning

The fallout from a variety of managed investment schemes (MISs) that collapsed following the onset of the global financial crisis continues to play out through the Financ...

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Financial planning

New Towers Watson research reveals degree to which Australian investment managers have outperformed their global peers....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers have reacted angrily to continuing attacks on the industry by compensation lawyers who blame financial planners for negative market performance and enc...

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Financial planning

The global financial crisis (GFC) acted as a catalyst for many financial planners to change their business models - something that has placed them in good stead as they d...

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Financial planning

A sharp divide in the mortgage fund sector still remains between the funds which have suffered little or no effects from the global financial crisis (GFC) and those which...

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Financial planning

Earlier this year, ASIC promised to direct most of its efforts to scrutinising areas such as advice related to structured products. Janine Mace examines the implications ...

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Financial planning

Neither financial advisers nor investors have been particularly interested in structured products over the past few years and the sector has significantly shrunk since th...

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Editorial

A cut in interest rates would result in the rise of consumer and business confidence, a fall in the Australian dollar and improvements on the stock market, according to R...

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Financial planning

Perpetual and AXA's decision to wind up their mortgage funds would result in increasingly limited choices for investors in this sector, according to Equity Trustees portf...

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Superannuation

Considerable risks exist for superannuation fund members trying to time the market amid the current volatility....

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Superannuation

New Chant West data reveals superannuation returns have plumbed depths not seen since GFC....

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Financial planning

The insurance and superannuation industries are relatively well placed to absorb further falls in the stock market and a blow-out in credit spreads, according to APRA cha...

People & Products

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced the appointment of Peter Kell and Greg Tanzer as the regulator’s new commissioners....

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Editorial

The current global economic uncertainty has resulted in many investors questioning the wisdom of some of their investment decisions. Michael Carrigan explores ways in whi...

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Financial planning

Market volatility is changing the way financial advisers structure their clients' retirement income and the advice they are offering around it. Benjamin Levy reports on t...

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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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