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Financial planning

Despite improving wealth, Generation Y is the most likely to suffer from financial stress, according to a study. ...

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Funds management

Traditional asset allocation models are no longer guaranteed to perform in the current economic climate and should be abandoned in favour of models that use alternative a...

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Funds management

First home buying has fallen to its lowest level ever, making up just 6.9 per cent of all home loans, down from a previous long-term national average of 15 per cent, acco...

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Editorial

Planners' appetite for fixed income has been on the decline, but will question marks over rates and markets change that? Kate Cowling investigates....

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Funds management

Forecast interest rate increases in the US and UK allied to a weakening Australian dollar could see a “rush of capital out of Australia”, Australian Unity Investments chi...

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Editorial

Chad Padowitz looks at the correlation between volatility and market risk....

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Life/Risk

Life insurers operating in the group risk area ignored warnings from APRA that price reductions and soft underwriting practices would affect profitability...

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Life/Risk

Australian commercial property assets are expected to remain attractive to investors despite “soft market fundamentals”, new research reveals....

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Life/Risk

Investors looking to buy into the property market should consider how their financial goals can be met and whether commercial property will help them reach those targets,...

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Financial planning

There has been a decline in the number of disputes handled by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) relating to financial services providers, the industry umpire’s annual...

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Editorial

Still haunted by memories of the GFC, investors are excessively focusing on yield to the detriment of diversification. Knowing how crises manifest in different ways, they...

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Financial planning

Advisory firm finds an increasing number of Australian business owners are choosing to part-sell their business....

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Editorial

A quick look at Australia's changing demographic profile raises many questions about the future for the retirement market, but also shows the hunt for dividend yield is f...

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Superannuation

Research showed Australian super funds slid down rankings of the world’s largest 300 pension funds as the dollar weakened....

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Financial planning

Banking consumers still rate CBA as the leader among the country’s ‘Big Four’ for customer satisfaction, despite negative publicity surrounding the bank’s financial plann...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 2 days ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks 1 day ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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