INVESTMENT TRENDS

Financial planning

Iress Xplan remains dominant despite recent acquisitions which have seen more overseas players enter the advice software market....

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Financial planning

More high net worth investors say they would value the opinions of financial advisers but few of them have yet taken advice....

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Funds management

Up to 12,000 financial planners in Australia are currently using or intend to use managed accounts, according to the joint report from State Street Global Advisors and In...

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People & Products

Dr Irene Guiamatsia will replace Recep Peker who will continue to support clients in an advisory capacity....

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Financial planning

The Government is talking about it, the regulator is talking about it and now digital advice player Six Park has released a white paper emphasising the need for an expand...

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Financial planning

As platform migrations and consolidation occur, new data is pointing to a still small but growing number of advisers choosing to use industry funds. ...

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Features

A Royal Commission, pandemic and regulatory change have distracted advisers from robo-advice in recent years but Jassmyn Goh finds out if the technology is now finally go...

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Financial planning

While planners are less optimistic about domestic stocks they are more likely to advise clients to invest their excess cash rather than reduce exposure to markets, accord...

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Financial planning

Despite the shifting regulatory landscape and disruption from major players, only 4% of financial planners intend to stop providing advice in the year ahead, according to...

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Financial planning

Since 2007, the number of self-managed super funds using a financial planner has not grown at the same level as the amount of new trustees. ...

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Financial planning

Environmental, social, and governance factors and more features from online brokers matter more to investors, according to a report....

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People & Products

Research firm Investment Trends chief executive, Michael Blomfield, has been appointed to the newly-created role....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are becoming less loyal to particular investment platforms as they look to navigate tougher times and the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Financial planning

New research from Investment Trends suggests robo-advice has not had the cut-through in Australia that many had hoped for but that new products may yet see it gain a bett...

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SMSF

Accountants want to expand their role in the self-managed superannuation fund space but have cited their biggest challenges as regulatory related, according to a report....

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JOHN GILLIES

Might be a bit different to i the past where at most there was one man from the industry on the loaded enquiry boards a...

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Simon

Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...

5 days 19 hours ago
Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

1 week 5 days ago

AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 1 week ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

9 months 2 weeks ago