Editorial

FOFA report calls for product providers to accept responsibility for their failures

Mike Taylor writes that the Government’s FOFA process has finally produced a genuinely positive outcome in the St John report’s clear analysis of the need for financial p...

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When the dealer group model breaks, CEOs fall

As a number of dealer group heads have found themselves out of a job, Mike Taylor writes that it is symptomatic of the impending death of the traditional financial planni...

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Federal Budget changes compound superannuation confusion

The dust has well and truly settled on the Federal Budget but, as Liz Westover writes, the Government needs to accept that its actions have served to confuse Australians ...

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FOFA concessions may have an expiry date

Mike Taylor writes that the Federal Opposition has signalled some of the so-called ‘concessions’ extracted around the passage of the FOFA bills may not have a life beyond...

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Financial planning has an image problem

Mike Taylor writes that the existence of large payments and the perception that a sales culture continues to exist in the financial planning space represents a dangerous ...

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Two types of people: rational ones and investors

Psychology is often the biggest obstacle to consistently successful investing, says Gordon Thoms....

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Emerging markets offer renewed opportunities

The poor performance of many developed international share markets over the past few years has strengthened the case for investors to allocate a greater proportion of the...

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Funds manager pay static but still sound

Despite headlines to the contrary, not everyone in funds management is raking in the big dollars with senior executives finding the drop in the market and the consolidati...

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Crops for the picking for Rural Funds Management

The skill of a boutique fund manager is to find a niche and perform well within that speciality. Rural Funds Management seems to have found such a niche, as John Wilkinso...

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Clock is set for change in UK market

The financial planning industry in the UK is in a state of flux. Lisa Bowman reports....

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CAM harvests rewards in sunset markets

Despite growing assets under management by some $1 billion over the past year, Citigroup Asset Management (CAM), the Australian asset management business of the US-based ...

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Investors Mutual does it again with Australian equities

Investors Mutual has taken out the Australian equities category of Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award for the second year running....