The financial services market is projected to grow to $3.76 trillion over the next 10 years, with the superannuation market expected to achieve an average growth rate of ...
Declining interest rates and bond yields, coupled with investors’ thirst for income, means strategies around equity income are here to stay, according to Warwick Cumming....
Stephen Nash looks at the current SMSF allocation of equities versus bonds and argues the reverse allocation would play out significantly in favour of the investor....
Contango Microcap looks to tidy up acquisition move started in 2011....
Over 80 per cent of financial services chief executives believe the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms will drive up the cost of operating a financial advisory net...
The use of retail fund managers by SMSFs has grown over the past three years, according to Plan For Life....
Recent economic news has some predicting the Australian economy is undergoing massive change. Daryl Wilson looks at the arguments and the potential impacts on property in...
Research suggests customer-owned banking is on the rise, having grown its assets by around 4.5 per cent in the last year....
When it comes to planning for our financial future we almost always rely on 'averages', which is a flawed approach, writes Andrew Barnett....
The flurry of regulatory change out of the US and Europe has served to challenge Australian investment managers....
Most Australians would rather spend any extra income on building up their savings than upgrading their life insurance policies, according to a national poll by TAL....
The importance of life/risk sales to financial advisers' revenue streams has been underscored by the latest data released by research house DEXX&R....
As part of their value-add, financial planners are increasingly putting in the time to build direct share portfolios for their clients. Are direct investments the new coo...
Research suggests fewer Australians use financial planners, but remaining clients are happier....
Women are more in control of their financial futures than men, according to the findings of RaboDirect's Savings and Debt Barometer....
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...