As accountants look to move into the adviser space and attain licences to advise on self-managed super funds, Malavika Santhebennur looks at the challenges and opportunit...
There are various areas of SMSFs that investors are demanding advice on that are not currently available, research showed....
Not one of the 13 alternative investment strategies most actively sold by financial advisers is worthy of a gold rating, ratings house, Morningstar believes....
Users of ‘robo-advice’ need to ask some basic questions of the online services including whether the operators have appropriate qualifications and experience in the inves...
Total Financial Solutions has signed an agreement with Ibbotson Associates to act as investment manager for its separately managed accounts and to provide investment cons...
Retail clients lured by yield are buying unlisted bonds without considering the high risks and whether they suit their investment profile, according to Morningstar....
Small cap managers should not be considered only on the size of their funds under management due to differing strategies in that sector of the market where stock values c...
Active small cap fund managers have outperformed their index for the decade but are expected to find similar performance harder to replicate as the resources boom falls a...
Mike Taylor questions whether research and ratings houses can be sustained and pursue growth as stand-alone businesses....
The median Australian share fund manager was below par from the index return by 0.3 per cent over October, Morningstar Institutional Sector Survey showed....
Australian super funds’ median growth fund returned 1.4 per cent over October 2014, according to the Morningstar Australian Superannuation Survey. ...
Investors are being encouraged to hold onto shares in property management business, GPT Group, following reports of improving occupancy rates in its office portfolio....
Investing in stocks in Asia is not for the faint-hearted given the scope of the region and the range of investments on offer. However, as Jason Spits writes, accessing so...
Up and coming research and investments house Zenith Investment Partners has bumped established players, Morningstar and Lonsec, from the top spot to become Money Manageme...
Zenith has been named Money Management’s Research House of the Year for 2014, taking the title from last year’s winner, Morningstar, writes Nicholas O’Donoghue. ...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...