FINANCIAL MARKETS

Financial planning

The three dominant generations seem to have very different views on investing and are split when describing their worst financial nightmares, according to a new survey re...

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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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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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