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. ...

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?...

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...

Regular readers of Outsider will remember that he recently questioned what, precisely, born again One Nation Senator, Malcolm Roberts, would bring to last month’s Financi...

Outsider has never exactly been quick to embrace new technologies and still hankers after his old Olivetti portable typewriter when it comes time to bash out a newsflash ...

Advisers might not be looking forward to fulfilling the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority education requirements, but just like financial planning itself, ...

In the wake of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry, the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority (...

Laura Dew writes that the mixed asset sectors offer investors ‘the best of both worlds’ by allowing them to hold a varied range of assets in one fund which can be rebalan...

The continuing rise of cloud computing is playing an unprecedented role in growth investing, Nick Griffin explores how IT stocks are assessed and where growth will come f...