GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Superannuation

Written complaints to the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal about industry funds increased by 25 per cent last year, while complaints about retail funds decreased slight...

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Financial planning

van Eyk chief researcher John O'Brien said high frequency trading is one of three "black holes" in the finance industry and needs further clarification....

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Funds management

According to MLC senior investment strategist Michael Karagianis, long-term investors who are relying on income strategies to fund their retirement may run out of the fun...

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Superannuation

Though the death of SMSFs may have been regularly predicted in years past, modelling within Deloitte's Dynamics of the Australian Superannuation System report, released i...

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Financial planning

With corporate insolvencies on the rise, there are a number of due diligence processes that Australian business owners can take to mitigate the risk of being left with un...

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Editorial

Ever since the first impact of the global financial crisis, both international and domestic regulators have been announcing changes to hedge funds, which would aim at imp...

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Editorial

Can an improving United States offset the problems in Europe? Matt Sherwood writes....

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Editorial

As many traditional multi-asset funds disappointed during the GFC, recent times have seen many managers diversify. Deanne Fuller examines the sector....

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Financial planning

Mental accounting can help financial planners harmonise their client’s money by acting as their financial conductors, writes Barry Wyatt....

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Financial planning

For financial advisers, the need to be able to assess their clients’ risk is assuming far greater importance, according to Gabriel Carey....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that the failure of the industry’s critics to distinguish between the failure of product and the failure of advice is continuing to tarnish the reputat...

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Editorial

Will Asia's economic growth translate to growth in equity prices in the Chinese New Year of the Dragon? David Urquhart believes it will....

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Funds management

The "dislocated markets" caused by Europe's sovereign debt issues are creating opportunities that quality fixed income managers can exploit, according to Zenith....

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Editorial

In this excerpt from Lonsec’s Australian Equities Large Cap Sector review, Lin Ngin writes the last 12 months have seen unusual trends emerge in the Australian equities l...

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Funds management

Securitor has launched a new investment research website which gives financial advisers access to product research and market commentary....

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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...

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

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

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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....

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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 ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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