RETAIL INVESTORS
Editorial
Although many investors were burned during the GFC by the liquidity shortfalls of alternative investments, retail investors now have better opportunities to build up port...
Financial planning
Sequoia Asset Management has launched a new fixed-term investment for retail investors....
Financial planning
The Bennelong Kardinia Capital Absolute Return fund has lowered its initial investment amount for retail investors to $20,000 and moved to provide daily liquidity....
Funds management
A group of local and international investors have praised the current environment as optimal for retail investment in alternatives. ...
Funds management
Funds management director Caroline Saunders made redundant after strategic review of Barclays’ funds management operations...
Funds management
With large parts of the investment industry focused on benchmark-hugging rather than rocking the boat, it can be a tough time to be a boutique fund manager, but ultimatel...
Financial planning
APRA has changed its stance on religious charitable development funds (RCDFs) in response to submissions from stakeholders. ...
Financial planning
State Street Global Advisers has leveraged feedback from financial advisers, researchers and super fund trustees to launch new retirement lifestyle products into the Aust...
Editorial
With interest rates falling, is now the time to consider real assets for income? Craig Keary writes. ...
Funds management
The Commonwealth Bank and HSBC have changed their advertising for certain structured products aimed at retail investors after ASIC deemed them potentially misleading. ...
Superannuation
On the back of a weakening Australian dollar, investors have shown particular interest in currency ETFs, according to Alex Vyonkur, managing director of BetaShares....
Editorial
Investors are flooding back to property, and as they do they might start asking whether direct or listed is the way to go – or perhaps even both. Freya Purnell writes....
Editorial
Do direct investors need protection from themselves? Jonathan Ramsay argues taking into account the fundamentals of underlying investments will pay off better than going ...
Funds management
BlackRock Investment Management has taken out the inaugural Lonsec/Money Management Award for best exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider for 2013. ...
Editorial
As advisers become increasingly time-poor, multi-manager funds seem to have emerged as an ‘all-in-one’ solution they need for their clients. But as Benjamin Levy reports,...
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Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...