Features

Financial Services Council and Industry Super Network – strange bedfellows?

There were some raised eyebrows when Financial Services Council chief executive John Brogden announced his organisation would be developing policy with the Industry Super...

Editorial

ANZ reports solid nine months

ANZ reports solid nine months but, like others, has issues with lapse rates....

Editorial

Is now the time to consider real assets for income?

With interest rates falling, is now the time to consider real assets for income? Craig Keary writes. ...

Editorial

Financial services quietly banks on a Coalition election win

In a two-horse race at the forthcoming Federal Election, Mike Taylor writes that financial services companies are mainly backing self-interest. ...

Editorial

Five years without fiddling with superannuation?

The Federal Treasurer, Chris Bowen, made a very good point when addressing the recent Financial Services Council annual conference: in 1996 the then Federal Opposition pr...

Editorial

Will rising yields sink all assets?

The winding down of the quantitative easing (QE) monetary policy in the USA will lead to significant changes in the relative performance between asset classes and within ...

Editorial

PIS owner flags profit hit from client claims

The parent group of Professional Investment Services (PIS), Centrepoint Alliance, has stated that profit and assets for 2013 will be impacted by between $3 million to $5 ...

Editorial

Is it time investors reconsidered property?

Patrick Noble suggests investors should stop overlooking property and reap the rewards from the renaissance. ...

Editorial

The promise and perils of lifecycle investing

Although lifecycle investing may hold the solution to one set of problems, it also has the potential to lift the lid on another Pandora’s box, writes Renato Mota....

Editorial

Don’t move – or I’ll shoot your commissions

The Association of Financial Advisers was right to open talks with Treasury officials around the status of grandfathering when planners move between one licensee and anot...

Editorial

Is the next recession we had to have looming?

Have the long golden years of uninterrupted economic growth, continued credit expansion and expanding government spending lulled us into thinking we are immune from reces...

Editorial

Can Rice Warner’s research for ISN stand the test of time?

While Rice Warner riled the financial planning industry with its latest research work on behalf of Industry Super Network, history will be the judge of the validity of it...