GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Superannuation

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia celebrates the anniversary of the superannuation guarantee, with research suggesting the super savings pool helped Au...

Superannuation

SMSF trustees assumed to be better in volatile times due to higher cash allocations and greater flexibility....

Financial planning

Financial planning clients would face greater risks in volatile markets under opt-in, says FPA chief, Mark Rantall. ...

Financial planning

Australia is more highly leveraged to emerging markets than people realise, and finding ways to diversify away from that risk is one of the biggest challenges facing port...

Financial planning

The second market downturn in three years may prompt super fund and platform sectors to finally start developing more protected growth linked retirement income solutions,...

Financial planning

BT Financial Group will begin a one-off television advertising campaign from today, in an effort to reassure investors after an extraordinary week on the global sharemark...

Financial planning

The latest data reveals corporate insolvencies are still being driven by debts incurred during the GFC....

Editorial

Increasing demand for energy combined with limited supply sounds like the perfect investment equation. However, as Mark Hume explains, it’s not without some risk....

Financial planning

As managed fund inflows struggle to return to pre-GFC levels, share trading and direct investments became increasingly popular with retail investors over the past couple ...

Funds management

Australian equities are trading at a 30 per cent discount compared to bonds, making the stock market look cheaper now than it did during the global financial crisis (GFC)...

Financial planning

Industry united in sending a single message to the Government on financial services – end the uncertainty....

Financial planning

Nervous investors are moving into cash and term deposits as the result of uncertainty in the stock market....

Superannuation

Nervous investors are moving into cash and term deposits as the result of uncertainty in the stock market....

Financial planning

Alternative investment strategies remain expensive with poorly designed performance fee structures, according to the latest Morningstar sector wrap....

Editorial

A recent study has shown that advisers see their client relationship as the primary foundation of their value proposition. Fiona Mackenzie describes the importance of a ...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months 1 week ago

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

7 months 1 week ago

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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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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