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Superannuation
SMSFs with higher exposures to equities would have done better than most through the opening months of 2012, according to the assessment of two of the leading superannuat...
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....
Financial planning
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has launched an interactive website that aims to map the changing goals of Australia in real-time....
Editorial
The global financial crisis and heightened volatility have brought defensive funds back into the spotlight. Andrew Hair discusses the characteristics of true defensive as...
Funds management
Investor sentiment has improved but remains in negative territory, according to CoreData's Investor Confidence Index....
Financial planning
Specialist superannuation and investment platform provider Wealthtrac is continuing to market its services to independent financial planners, having rebuilt FUM back to l...
Financial planning
Company collapses have risen by 117 per cent to 1,123, reflecting a continuing 'lag effect' from the economic woes of the global financial crisis, according to research b...
Superannuation
Superannuation and investment platform provider Wealthtrac claims it has grown FUM back to levels close to those achieved prior to the GFC....
Editorial
Having clients believe that placing money in bank deposits constitutes investing will have a detrimental effect on both the financial advice industry and the end consumer...
Funds management
Despite many investors' negative experience during the GFC, Australian Unity's Mark Pratt and Cameron Dickman say property fits the gap needed to create an income stream ...
Editorial
There is considerable asset allocation bias with SMSF trustees. This is likely to lead to disappointing performance at best, and widespread disasters at worst, according ...
Editorial
Piers Bolger examines the rise of the Australian dollar and its impact on investment decisions....
Funds management
Simon Ho, Triple 3 Partners director says investing in volatility is not a passing trend but constitutes a revolutionary new way of investing....
Editorial
Economist Matt Drennan says it’s time for Australia's political leaders to acknowledge that our relative economic good fortune is attributable as much to luck as good man...
Financial planning
The number of companies entering liquidation is continuing to break records, with 10,544 companies entering some form of insolvency administration in the year to January ...
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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,...