FINANCIAL MARKETS

Editorial

The increasing acceptance of managed futures is welcome news, but Dominic McCormick believes retail investors should know what to expect....

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Financial planning

ASIC has released a consultation paper on the public trading of Commonwealth Government Securities in a bid to develop a broad, liquid corporate bond market....

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Financial planning

The Federal Government has recommitted to delivering on the Financial Markets Report regime evolving out of the so-called Johnson Report - the first time it has been flag...

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Financial planning

Active portfolio management will be the key to success in current financial markets rather than a reliance on investment products alone....

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Financial planning

Client satisfaction with their advisers' skills and reliability has improved significantly in the past six months despite stagnant share market performance....

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Editorial

Like their foreign counterparts, Australian bonds seem to have gone from risk-free return to return-free risk. Matthew Drennan explains why bonds are not the safe haven, ...

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Editorial

Piers Bolger believes that emerging market debt will continue to grow in prominence and provide an alternative debt solution to developed market economies....

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Editorial

The insistence of policymakers on intervention in free markets is a worry, writes Martin Conlon....

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Superannuation

SMSF advisers need to be careful when considering the right stocks for their clients’ portfolios. Peter van der Westhuyzen takes a look at the benefits of dividend reinve...

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Editorial

Matt Drennan looks at the Government’s decision to support certain industries and whether it is completely necessary....

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Financial planning

New technologies and social media are becoming less of a fad and more of an essential business tool, offering opportunities in key business areas such as gaining referral...

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Financial planning

Iress Market Technology expects weak short-term growth as a result of the difficult market environment faced by its mature business accounts....

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Financial planning

Australia's current financial markets' regulatory structure gives it an advantage compared to the byzantine structures in other markets, according to Nick Sherry....

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Financial planning

As the Government works on its budget, ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft has pointed to ASIC's growing regulatory workload....

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Funds management

Australia's exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is up to proposed international standards, according to an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) report....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 day 23 hours ago

It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

3 weeks ago

increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

3 weeks 6 days ago

Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

2 weeks 1 day ago

A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

21 hours 59 minutes ago

ASIC has cancelled a Sydney AFSL for failing to pay a $64,000 AFCA determination related to inappropriate advice, which then had to be paid by the CSLR. ...

19 hours 3 minutes ago