Many financial planners have lost faith in the Federal Government’s willingness to inject balance into FOFA and, as Mike Taylor writes, this attitude was not helped by re...

With approximately 35 million superannuation accounts spread among 10 million working Australians, Peter Philip reveals the mother lode of small and duplicate accounts ex...

The share prices of Australia’s major publicly listed financial planning groups have been trending down for most of the past 14 months and, as Mike Taylor reports, at lea...

The global financial crisis has resulted in a change in the way multi-manager funds operate. Benjamin Levy explains why many funds are struggling to adapt to the new real...

In light of the recent falls in silver and oil prices, Ron Bewley considers the case for investing directly in commodities. ...

Deborah Wixted explains what happens when good capital gains tax contributions go bad. ...

With the recent one-year anniversary of Julia Gillard toppling Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister and leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party, the Australian financial ...

In the second part of his article on claims management fees, Col Fullagar considers fee-based remuneration models and their impact on claims management....

Michael Collins explains why Beijing is experiencing restless nights about the rising yuan. ...

Andrew Bailo takes a look at the issues arising from the Future of Financial Advice reforms, and concludes that the harmful changes outweigh the beneficial ones....

Pioneering the cause for ethical investing following its inception in 1994, it is no surprise that Hunter Hall was the clear front-runner and the first winner of this yea...