An ageing population has meant retirees and pre-retirees now make up 66 per cent of financial planning clients and 82 per cent of planner funds under advice...

Traditional investors are being increasingly drawn to ETFs, but severe knowledge gaps about how the investment vehicle works are holding them back, research has found. ...

Platforms are continuing to struggle with FDS as research finds compliance accounted for half of development spending. ...

Planners are pushing record sums of new client money into listed investments, research shows....

Meeting the diverse needs of SMSFs will present the financial services industry with both challenges and opportunities, writes Tim Keegan....

The margin lending industry looks set to rebound, with two thirds of brokers looking to increase their activity in the next 12 months, research shows....

High net worth investor numbers invest a third of collective assets via self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF)....

As FOFA development draws to a close, software companies shift focus to scaled advice and customer engagement, research shows....

Falling volatility in the foreign exchange market has seen the number of Australian traders drop 4 per cent in a year....

Advised investors are more bullish in investing offshore and hold more stable views towards global investment compared to non-advised investors, an Investment Trends repo...

As we enter the post-global financial crisis era, investor confidence is returning and interest rates are staying at record lows. But has the lustre worn off term deposit...

The margin lending sector seems to be going through a partial revival, but no thanks to financial planners....

Specialist SMSF administrator SuperGuardian has been appointed by online broker Bell Direct to manage its integrated SMSF solution. ...

It can seem that deficits outweigh the benefits when it comes to investing in emerging markets at present but, as Milana Pokrajac reports, while some of the emerging mark...