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Financial planning

Despite improving wealth, Generation Y is the most likely to suffer from financial stress, according to a study. ...

Funds management

Traditional asset allocation models are no longer guaranteed to perform in the current economic climate and should be abandoned in favour of models that use alternative a...

Funds management

First home buying has fallen to its lowest level ever, making up just 6.9 per cent of all home loans, down from a previous long-term national average of 15 per cent, acco...

Editorial

Planners' appetite for fixed income has been on the decline, but will question marks over rates and markets change that? Kate Cowling investigates....

Funds management

Forecast interest rate increases in the US and UK allied to a weakening Australian dollar could see a “rush of capital out of Australia”, Australian Unity Investments chi...

Editorial

Chad Padowitz looks at the correlation between volatility and market risk....

Life/Risk

Life insurers operating in the group risk area ignored warnings from APRA that price reductions and soft underwriting practices would affect profitability...

Life/Risk

Australian commercial property assets are expected to remain attractive to investors despite “soft market fundamentals”, new research reveals....

Life/Risk

Investors looking to buy into the property market should consider how their financial goals can be met and whether commercial property will help them reach those targets,...

Financial planning

There has been a decline in the number of disputes handled by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) relating to financial services providers, the industry umpire’s annual...

Editorial

Still haunted by memories of the GFC, investors are excessively focusing on yield to the detriment of diversification. Knowing how crises manifest in different ways, they...

Financial planning

Advisory firm finds an increasing number of Australian business owners are choosing to part-sell their business....

Editorial

A quick look at Australia's changing demographic profile raises many questions about the future for the retirement market, but also shows the hunt for dividend yield is f...

Superannuation

Research showed Australian super funds slid down rankings of the world’s largest 300 pension funds as the dollar weakened....

Financial planning

Banking consumers still rate CBA as the leader among the country’s ‘Big Four’ for customer satisfaction, despite negative publicity surrounding the bank’s financial plann...

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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 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

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

4 weeks 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...

1 week 4 days ago

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

3 weeks ago