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Financial planning

Russell Investment Management will now have eight new funds on the RaboPlus online managed funds platform....

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Superannuation

The superannuation sector has been hit hard in recent years as funds suffered greatly at the hands of market volatility. Angela Faherty takes a look at what the future ho...

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Financial planning

Magellan’s Gerald Stack argues advisers should look to global infrastructure for protection against the effects of inflation and falling consumer spending....

Financial planning

The platform and financial services provider has introduced new modelling and rebalancing technology to its products....

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Financial planning

Russell Investments research has attempted to broaden the active versus passive investing debate, outlining five key factors investors should consider when deciding which...

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Funds management

New Watson Wyatt research suggests there is both promise and risks in investing in emerging markets....

Financial planning

The occurrence of range-bound markets is an interesting dynamic for managed futures and generally means that investors should adopt a long-term time horizon when investin...

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Editorial

DAMON TAYLOR reports on the successes – and failures – of fixed interest investments in light of the global financial crisis....

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Editorial

Life is messy, and investing is no exception. Dominic McCormick writes why he believes investors are not well served by current asset allocation methods....

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Financial planning

At this year’s PortfolioConstruction Conference (August 26-27, 2009), PIMCO’s Bill Gross will discuss why the “new normal” in asset markets will be dominated by three key...

Funds management

Many advisers assume tactical asset allocation is a value-add for clients, despite very few practitioners consistently adding value from this method over the longer term....

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Editorial

How safe are cash and bonds? Dominic McCormick examines the state of these asset classes and whether the perception that they are investment safe havens is accurate....

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Financial planning

DAVID WHITTEN explores the long short investment universe....

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Financial planning

Claims some AREITs are refusing to mark their assets to market to avoid having to face stricter terms from their creditors....

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Funds management

The use of electronic-traded funds (ETFs) across all asset classes has increased significantly over the past three years, notably within the equity universe where their u...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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