Features

FOFA's failings come into focus as time runs out

The financial planning industry understands that time is running out to extract key amendments to the FOFA bills and, as Mike Taylor writes, the industry has distilled it...

Editorial

Have ASIC and APRA lost their objectivity?

Concerns ASIC and APRA were becoming increasingly politicised were brought to a head during the hearings into the FOFA reforms....

Editorial

Hedge funds pay a heavy price for GFC

Ever since the first impact of the global financial crisis, both international and domestic regulators have been announcing changes to hedge funds, which would aim at imp...

Editorial

Why hedge funds are back in the spotlight

Given the new investment environment, flexibility is essential. This might create perfect conditions for the growth of the hedge fund sector, writes Janine Mace....

Editorial

Can a resurgent USA rise above the euro crisis?

Can an improving United States offset the problems in Europe? Matt Sherwood writes....

Editorial

Multi-asset funds shift their approach

As many traditional multi-asset funds disappointed during the GFC, recent times have seen many managers diversify. Deanne Fuller examines the sector....

Editorial

BT strongest in poor year for retail managed funds

BT emerged from 2011 relatively unscathed in what was a poor year for retail managed funds providers....

Editorial

Will FOFA hold up to parliamentary scrutiny?

Mike Taylor writes that the dissenting reports produced within the Parliamentary Joint Committee reviewing the FOFA bills will ensure the key points are thoroughly debate...

Editorial

Yellow Brick Road growing and spending aggressively

Yellow Brick Road has more than doubled its revenue in the half year to 31 December, but a huge increase in expenditure has led to its after-tax losses growing from $0.5 ...

Editorial

The pros and cons of annuities and direct fixed income

Challenger’s Aaron Minney provides his comparison of annuities and direct fixed income in a response to an article recently published in Money Management and authored by ...

Editorial

Bill Shorten’s tall order

Recent suggestions that Kevin Rudd would offer Bill Shorten the Treasury portfolio in the event Rudd returned to the prime ministership is a reflection of the silliness t...

Editorial

Don’t blame financial advisers for product failures

Mike Taylor writes that the failure of the industry’s critics to distinguish between the failure of product and the failure of advice is continuing to tarnish the reputat...