For smaller retail investors, hedge funds are not necessarily a suitable choice, writes Robert Jaeger....

Financial planning commissions may not be extinct but they are now a seriously endangered species....

Investors who are under financial pressure may be tempted to artificially create losses....

It is becoming increasingly obvious that irrespective of the initiatives flagged by the Financial Planning Association, the Australian financial services industry is goin...

How safe are cash and bonds? Dominic McCormick examines the state of these asset classes and whether the perception that they are investment safe havens is accurate....

Financial planners must take the lessons they’ve learnt from the GFC and begin applying them if they hope to survive the next economic upheaval....

With the Federal Budget having delivered little more than some revenue-oriented tinkering to the financial services environment, a good deal of attention is now being foc...

Should clients be comfortable making new capital allocations to hedge funds, ask SIMON FOX and DIVYESH HINDOCHA....

Nicholas Dunstone says distressed debt funds are not vultures. On the contrary, they offer a ray of light to companies facing insolvency....

Tower Australia Group has reported a 12 per cent decline in net profit but prefers to point to the positives contained in its underlying profit result....

Perpetual chairman, Robert Savage forecasts a more than 50 per cent reduction in profit for the 2009 financial year despite cost-savings and a salary freeze....