FINANCIAL CRISIS

Financial planning

The threat of regulatory change has outranked cyber crime and PR disasters as the greatest risk to the financial services industry, a survey shows. ...

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Editorial

The recognition of women in the financial services sector reached new heights this year with the launch of a number of dedicated award schemes and programs....

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Financial planning

Over 55s have finally recovered from the post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) malaise that prevented them from retiring, an SMSF adviser says. ...

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Financial planning

A new ABS survey reveals that while recent retirees are still exiting the workforce at around 60, future retirees are expecting to retire after 65....

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Life/Risk

Disparities between the premiums on inforce and new risk products causing problems....

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Editorial

Brandywine’s Francis Scotland tells Mike Taylor that a continuing hang-over from the GFC may lead negative investors to miss the growth train in 2014....

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Editorial

David Urquhart explains why Asia has under-performed this year – but also why the outlook for Asian stocks is strong....

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Editorial

Investing in hedge funds is one of the more polarising topics in the investment world. There are strongly-held views at each end of the spectrum, with little in-between, ...

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Funds management

A group of local and international investors have praised the current environment as optimal for retail investment in alternatives. ...

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Financial planning

New research suggests one in four financial services firms running core systems on legacy technology....

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Editorial

Too much money chasing too much risk for too little ultimate return? Or a reasonable response to an unprecedented situation? Olivia Albrecht, Michael Story and John Valtw...

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Editorial

When confronting new challenges, it’s all too easy to impose an overly simplistic narrative solution based on past experience, as Nick Armet writes. ...

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Financial planning

Planner sentiment has taken a dive over the last three months and there is more than one reason for it, according to Wealth Insights....

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Financial planning

The ABA has asked the Federal Government to consider the new bank levy as part of a broader inquiry into Australia’s financial services sector, or do away with it entirel...

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Funds management

The review of the managed discretionary account (MDA) sector being undertaken by ASIC is likely to result in a reduction of MDA operators — with only the largest able to ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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...

3 weeks ago

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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