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Financial planning
Mental accounting can help financial planners harmonise their client’s money by acting as their financial conductors, writes Barry Wyatt....
Editorial
The popularity of cash products does not seem to revolve solely around investment sentiment anymore. Milana Pokrajac reports....
Editorial
Although financial planners are in for another tough year, the Financial Planning Association's Mark Rantall believes this could be a good time to reflect on how to creat...
Editorial
All the signs are showing that the share market is reaching its low point, argues Dominic McCormick....
Financial planning
The online publisher Trident Press has removed a number of claims on its websites after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found they were "likel...
Editorial
Tim Sanderson puts the traditional asset allocation approach head to head with the bucket strategy, with some surprising results....
Superannuation
If conventional funds can offer greater choice and flexibility they may yet provide competition for SMSFs....
Editorial
As emerging markets wages increase significantly, the core CPI of many developed world economies will rise, and potentially force some central banks to revisit interest r...
Editorial
As emerging markets wages increase significantly, the core CPI of many developed world economies will rise, and potentially force some central banks to revisit interest r...
Financial planning
Major considerations for investors in Asia are the same as for any asset class - risk and return. In Asia though, the potential returns and risks can be very different fr...
Financial planning
Despite a wave of indiscriminate selling by Western investors, the fundamentals remain strong for Asian equities, writes Tim Stewart....
Editorial
A cut in interest rates would result in the rise of consumer and business confidence, a fall in the Australian dollar and improvements on the stock market, according to R...
Financial planning
The insurance and superannuation industries are relatively well placed to absorb further falls in the stock market and a blow-out in credit spreads, according to APRA cha...
Financial planning
The Government has released draft regulations relating to the way ASIC will recover costs from market participants in a new multi-operator environment....
Superannuation
The gap between industry super funds and the big six retail superannuation funds has significantly shrunk over the past year in terms of customer satisfaction, according ...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...