Features

Mike Taylor writes that as a former ASIC executive, ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos has managed to spice up the submissions to the Senate Committee reviewing ASIC’s op...

Editorial

Finding the right inflation-plus products for your clients

What are the types of inflation-plus products that will resonate with a wide variety of different clients to help them achieve the financial outcomes they want? A Money M...

Editorial

Commbank’s strong September quarter

Commbank’s quarterly update reveals solid earnings backed by improving markets....

Editorial

ASIC’s wait and see approach draws fire

Does ASIC really only act when complaints about particular schemes or issues “reach tsunami level”? ...

Editorial

Australia defying global index funds trend – for now

Although the rest of the world has moved heavily into index funds in recent years, Australians and Kiwis have to a degree maintained their love affair with an active mana...

Editorial

The retirement conundrum: challenging investment convention

A recent white paper by Lonsec and Milliman explores the conundrum facing retirees trying to balance security of income against the need for investment growth to fund gre...

Editorial

Macquarie’s financial services businesses lose ground

Macquarie’s banking and financial services division recorded a marginal drop in profit contributions in the last six months, but its wrap platform continued to perform we...

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Finding hidden sources of income from equities

There is a good source of income from equities that even some savvy investors are missing out on, writes Matt Olsen....

Editorial

APESB’s new challenge: to stay relevant

Given the manner in which the financial planning and accounting communities have been pushed even more closely together by FOFA and TASA, it is worth reflecting upon the ...

Editorial

Is it too soon for investors to abandon the cash safe haven?

As the shadow of the Global Financial Crisis finally passes, the popular ‘safety in cash’ philosophy seems to have departed too. But with an ageing population and the mem...

Editorial

Wealth management challenges and opportunities in Asia

This may become the Asian century but the wealth management sectors of each Asian country behave differently and have varying products, processes and problems that requir...

Editorial

FPA/Cbus deal signals a new approach for planning industry

Mike Taylor writes that the FPA’s referral arrangement with big industry fund Cbus represents yet another indicator that, having lost the war prosecuted by the industry f...