Funds investing in emerging markets and Asia proved to be the big winners in 1999, ac-cording to the latest Morningstar research. The Morningstar survey of New Zealand ba...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised proposals to include assets held in private trusts and private companies as part of the means test for the age pen...

Australian fund managers are weighted down with product, increasing manage-ment costs and making them vulnerable to overseas competitors entering the mar-ket, says one an...

Superannuation fund members may be starting to find they are being targeted by their own funds’ affiliated financial planners, if the results of the Top 100 survey are an...

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has fired a broadside at the Federal Opposition for delaying important reforms to financial services industry regulation....

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has fired a broadside at the Federal Opposition for delaying important reforms to financial services industry regulation....

About 200 years ago, American political philosopher Thomas Paine wrote: “Gov-ernment, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil”....

The superannuation choice of fund proposal has been on the Federal Government’s to do list since the Coalition came to power in 1996. And while the Government considers i...

When it comes to business tax reform most of the headlines have been about capital gains tax (CGT) reform, accelerated depreciation and the lower corporate tax proposal....

There are a number of anomalies that you come across when you examine the op-eration of the Australian superannuation system. ...

The common wisdom about the Government’s changes to the capital gains tax system for individuals is that people should now turnover their portfolios frequently. This is n...

Fund managers have been facing an uphill battle in getting investors to recognise the attractiveness of annuity products that include growth assets....

Recent tax proposals have thrown the spotlight on venture capital investments. But Australia has a lot of catching up to do, say Stephen White and Sam Armstrong....

Retired secretary of Perth-based RAC Superannuation Fund Kerry Davey always knew Bob Harris was coming to brief employees when he saw a diminutive figure toting a brand n...