Financial advisers are facing an ethical dilemma as they buckle under immense pressure from agribusiness investment scheme managers with large marketing budgets....
While it may seem safer to confine your investments to the local equities market, looking overseas may too be a good long-term strategy, writes Benjamin Levy....
When Australia was enjoying a bull property market, investors - many of them retirees - opted to put their money in mortgage funds as a way of guaranteeing a regular inco...
In the wake of the global financial crisis, the case for fee-for-service is stronger than ever before, writes Ray Griffin....
The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data has revealed that the value of Australian superannuation assets is fast heading below the $1 trillion mark....
Latest investor confidence index recorded a measure of 2.3, up from -22.3 in the first quarter last year....
Currency management has become a critical component of super returns, or lack thereof, as a result of the extreme currency swings in the global financial crisis, accordin...
An OECD report has revealed that Australian superannuation funds have been among the hardest hit in the world, magnifying levels of poverty among seniors....
An Auditor-General's report has revealed that some Commonwealth Government departments and agencies will incur losses on the back of declining interest rates and bond yie...
Global warming poses a bigger problem than the global financial crisis, according to the author of the Garnaut report, Ross Garnaut....
Thanks to the Rudd Labor Government's first Cabinet reshuffle financial services now has a seat at the Cabinet table but, as Mike Taylor reports, it remains for the indus...
The various committees within the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) have outlined their policy priorities for the 2009-10 financial year. The following...
For smaller retail investors, hedge funds are not necessarily a suitable choice, writes Robert Jaeger....
How safe are cash and bonds? Dominic McCormick examines the state of these asset classes and whether the perception that they are investment safe havens is accurate....
Financial planners must take the lessons they’ve learnt from the GFC and begin applying them if they hope to survive the next economic upheaval....
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...