Will master trusts and planning software ever merge. John Wilkinson finds opinion is still divided....
I HAVE asked dozens of financial planners where they add value to their clients. Their usual response is through advice and strategy....
While many investors are steering clear of offshore markets, GEORGE LIONDIS reports that Frank Russell has stuck to its guns with its heavy international equities weighti...
The success of Australia’s Listed Property Trust (LPT) sector is driving the products, and those who invest in them, increasingly offshore. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....
AUSTRALIAN retail investors have lost faith in US stocks and have started to look elsewhere, placing the US markets under pressure to provide a stable investment ground, ...
The Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) looks set to result in further compliance and legislative costs to superannuation funds offering member investment choice, warns ...
What is it with tigers and the industry lately? Have no idea what we are talking about? Well tigers are those big orange cat like creatures and the industry is … sorry yo...
Lonsec has downgraded two of Rothschild Australia Asset Management’s funds from recommended to approved status, sighting the Westpac’s purchase of the fund manager introd...
The investment projections of some fund managers lack basic ingredients, writes DOMINIC McCORMICK....
INVESTORS looking to optimise their share market returns in the next six months should look to value stocks given the prevailing economic conditions, which will create a ...
It has not been in my nature to forecast the future but I would like to indulge in a bit of future gazing. A debate that started in this august journal last year was the ...
Savvy investors are pushing individually managed accounts (IMAs) into the retail space, possibly at the expense of unit trusts. STEPHEN ROBERTSON reports. ...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...