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Funds management

The incoming Biden administration is expected to be a boost to infrastructure spending, according to 4D Infrastructure, as both parties in the US agree current infrastruc...

Expert Analysis

While value investing has taken a beating in recent years, Peter Wilmshurst writes that there’s still opportunity to be found in companies with reasonable valuations and ...

Funds management

Global markets still face unresolved risks despite a stable first quarter, according to Antipodes Partners....

Features

There is consensus in the funds management industry that despite the volatile times, Australian investors must invest in global stocks to grab opportunities beyond minera...

Features

We should realign our thinking to the East and accept the ‘rest of the West’ to allow actual global change, Jonathan Wu writes....

Features

The clear message for investors at present is that global monetary policy almost certainly has to remain highly expansionary for some time to come, Conrad Burge writes....

Features

While a number of economists and commentators believe that the global economy is on the brink of deflation, Dr. Michael Hasenstab explains why deflationary fears are misg...

Financial planning

Australia to act as Australasian arm of Deloitte’s chain of Cyber Intelligence Centres....

People & Products

Principal Global Investors appoints Andrea Muller as executive director-head of international distribution, as Kirk West moves into a new role. ...

Policy & Regulation

The FSI final report has placed stockbrokers squarely in the regulatory cross-hairs....

Financial planning

Capital Group has ramped up its retail distribution push shifting from working through third parties to recruiting its own team of account managers and sales support staf...

News

Remember the halcyon period prior to the global financial crisis (GFC), when nearly all asset classes showed strong returns and choosing the right investment manager made...

Financial planning

Online rating systems for planners have low levels of penetration and produce inconsistent results that will not assist in building trust in the financial advice sector...

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager numbers are unlikely to rise due to tightly monitored APLs and a reluctance to move from the mainstream...

Financial planning

Towers Watson restructures manager research team on back of internal promotions....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 6 days ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 3 days ago

ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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