SuperConcepts’ Graeme Colley explains why self-managed super funds are likely to come under more scrutiny following recent court decisions and how trustees and their clie...
Three fund managers have received multiple five Crown upgrades this year for their funds, writes Laura Dew, with IPAC Asset Management emerging victorious with 12 five Cr...
Funds with a small-cap bias were the big winners in the latest quantitative FE.Fundinfo Crown Ratings, writes Laura Dew , with five small-cap funds being upgraded to five...
The fund managers that received the most five Crown downgrades had a lot of 19 mixed asset funds demoted collectively, data finds....
Most of the new equity funds given Crown ratings only received one to two Crowns, according to FE/Fundinfo data....
It is well-known that Australians love talking about property, writes Oksana Patron, so how has the AREIT market performed and which sectors should they look at in the fu...
Rather than an unwelcome compliance burden, the Design and Distribution Obligations and the ASIC Interventions Power can be a force for a better and more sustainable busi...
The US/China trade war may be dragging on, writes Laura Dew, but are we really facing the threat of a global currency war and will either side be a winner at the end?...
Nikko AM portfolio manager Chris Rands looks at how historic bond performance can help us in the debate between term deposits and fixed rate bonds. ...
Mike Taylor writes that in the absence of a definitive methodology for ensuring clients are rebated the grandfathered remuneration which would otherwise have gone to fina...
Australia’s financial services regulators have been handed greater regulatory powers but is there a danger that their interventions will result in distortions to otherwis...
Outsider really wonders whether the “barefoot investor”, Scott Pape, is really barefoot given his book sales and the spotter’s fee he is probably owed by a particular sup...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...