PROPERTY

Editorial

Short-term stimulus policies, like low interest rates and excessive liquidity injections, can have severe, long-term consequences for the global economy, as Stanley Yeo e...

Editorial

Looking across the investment landscape for clear winners and losers is not a simple task, with more grey than black and white coming into view. While performances are be...

Editorial

Retail advisers have traditionally shied away from alternative investments, but an upswing in the market could see them become a hot ticket option in 2014, particularly f...

Superannuation

ASFA claims SMSFs utilising limited recourse borrowing arrangements are yet to have a significant impact on residential property markets....

Superannuation

SMSF trustees should look to commercial property to avoid overheated residential property investment market. ...

Financial planning

More Australians need to have a financial enduring power of attorney in case they physically and mentally decline and are unable to make decisions....

Editorial

The recognition of women in the financial services sector reached new heights this year with the launch of a number of dedicated award schemes and programs....

Financial planning

Specialist ETF research house AltaVista Research announced last week it had added eight newly-issued ETFs to its research universe. ...

Funds management

Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has proposed to merge its Australian Unity Fifth Commercial Trust (FCT) with its unlisted Australian Unity Office Property Fund (OPF), ...

Superannuation

Townsends Business & Corporate Lawyers' Peter Townsend outlines some of the do's and don'ts for maintaining a bare trust in a LRBA....

Superannuation

Two bodies representing industry super funds have called for improvement in the quality of advice provided to clients, questioning some of the drivers behind the growth o...

Editorial

Although tax exemption when selling a person’s main residence is usually a routine matter, things can go badly wrong in some quite unexpected ways, writes Chris Ardagna....

Superannuation

SMSF trustees cautioned to ensure they understand the details of establishing bare trusts where limited recourse borrowing is concerned. ...

Superannuation

SPAA supports ASIC on property spruikers but maintains that, properly-advised, property is a legitimate SMSF investment....

Funds management

ASIC has signalled a crackdown on unlicensed property spruikers who advocate self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investment without the proper authority...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

6 months ago

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

6 months 1 week ago

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

8 months 1 week ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

3 weeks 1 day ago

Australian retirees could increase their projected annual incomes by as much as 51 per cent through comprehensive financial advice, according to a Vanguard study, but cos...

3 weeks ago

ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

4 weeks 1 day ago