global financial crisis

Financial planning

The Asia Pacific now sits behind only North America in terms of high-net-worth individuals and the level of their wealth....

Financial planning

Liquidity key for alternatives

Advisers remain wary of the liquidity problems the alternatives sector saw throughout the global financial crisis, but are still looking for that hedge fund type diversif...

Editorial

Facing the challenges of a strong currency

With the Australian dollar reaching record highs in the last few months, Dominic McCormick looks at the issues a strong currency has raised for investors. ...

Editorial

Inflation fears about the US

There are widespread concerns that the large-scale quantitative easing by the US Federal Reserve will lead to a resurgence of inflation. Robert Keavney weighs up the evid...

Editorial

Investor sentiment due for a cold snap

With market economists pointing to the existence of a ‘wall of worry’ built on bad economic news out of Europe and the US, Mike Taylor writes that advisers will need to g...

Financial planning

Direct property on the comeback trail

Following a period of uncertainty, the direct property market appears to be undergoing post-GFC resurgence. Janine Mace reports. ...

Editorial

Benefits of managed funds warrant close analysis

With post-GFC investor confidence returning only slowly, a growing number of planners are placing their clients’ funds into direct shares. Paul Foster asks: is leaving on...

Financial planning

More than $3 million per planner still in cash

Across an average planner's client base, there is about $3.2 million sitting in cash that would have otherwise been invested in growth assets, but hasn’t been due to mark...

Financial planning

Professionalism rests on industry's shoulders: Spiers

The push to achieve professionalism in financial planning needs to go beyond planners to include all participants in the industry, according to general manager of advice ...

Funds management

Private equity outperforms

Australian private equity and venture capital returned 7.3 per cent over 2010, outperforming most major relevant benchmarks, according to the Cambridge Associates LLC Aus...

Financial planning

Tough GFC decisions postponed

A new UK analysis points to a rocky road ahead as investors look to fully emerge from the global financial crisis....

Funds management

US property fund gets go ahead from investors

Dixon Advisory has successfully closed the initial public offer for its US residential property fund for Australian investors, receiving more than double the minimum subs...

Financial planning

Advisers shun capital protection

Capital protected products, which received a boost amid the uncertainty of the global financial crisis, are now being shunned by financial planners as too expensive and i...