Features

A double dissolution election has left many financial planning policies in limbo, and advisers are demanding certainty on at least three key issues, Malavika Santhebennur...

Tools & guides

It takes more than a year to become professional

While the professional standards changes will set a benchmark, it is important to remember that these are only a minimum, Bryan Ashenden writes....

Tools & guides

Lessons learnt from clients’ perception of advice

Financial advice is more than picking stocks or managed funds and advisers need to understand the different services that are important to their clients, Matt Walsh write...

Tools & guides

Expanding the retirement income frontier

Annuities give investors a better outcome than standard bond investments and give the benefit of securing income and peace of mind, Aaron Minney writes....

Tools & guides

Who’s the best performing Australian share fund?

Bennelong generated the best return for an Australian share fund by investing in companies that are rapidly growing on the back of the ageing population, tourism, and peo...

Tools & guides

Federal Budget Q&A

Given the significant amount of interest in the superannuation-related changes proposed, what follows is a compilation of common questions relating to these proposals by ...

Editorial

Justified Royal Commission or brutal payback?

Federal Opposition leader, Bill Shorten, has declared that a Labor victory will bring forth a Royal Commission into the banks but the reality is that all sections of the ...

Editorial

Budget super changes open to refinement

Mike Taylor writes that the critics of the Government’s Budget super changes should expect minor tactical adjustments rather than major reversals....

Features

What’s keeping advisers up at night? – Adviser Sentiment Part 1

The financial planning industry has probably accepted by now that change is a constant, stemming from legislation, regulation, or the Budget. Malavika Santhebennur wades ...

Features

What’s the cost of bedding down FOFA? – Adviser Sentiment Part 2

Financial planners talk about what the costs of implementing FOFA have been for their practices even as they contemplate the next suite of changes stemming from tinkering...

Features

Miscellaneous concerns – Adviser Sentiment part 3

Malavika Santhebennur finds out what else is on advisers’ minds other than the 2016 Federal Budget and FOFA in part three of this feature....

Features

When year-end tax strategies rely on a federal election

Decisions regarding tax this financial year have a lot to do with the upcoming federal election and possible legislative changes. Jassmyn Goh finds out how advisers can b...