INVESTMENT TRENDS

Financial planning

The number of Australian women investing online has doubled from 76,000 to 150,000 over the last five years, with women showing particular interest in exchange traded fun...

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Financial planning

Investors on average expect the All Ordinaries Index to grow by +0.3 per cent over the next few months, according to Investment Trends....

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Financial planning

New research has pointed to financial planners seeing themselves as being more comfortable as asset allocators rather than stock-pickers and leaning towards goals-based a...

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Financial planning

Australians have shown a strong interest in using leverage to invest, according to a study from Investment Trends....

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Superannuation

The SMSF Association is selling the message that you don’t need $1 million to set up a self-managed superannuation fund but regulatory uncertainty does represent a major ...

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Financial planning

The latest research from Investment Trends reveals trust in financial planners has plumbed new lows following the Royal Commission....

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Financial planning

Australian investors’ share market return expectations have turned negative for the first time since the global financial crisis, according to Investment Trends....

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Features

Anastasia Santoreneos writes that while FASEA and the Royal Commission have got advisers down in the short term, they are feeling positive about the future of the industr...

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Financial planning

Advisers are snubbing their service providers in pursuit of a self-licensed or boutique model, data from Investment Trends shows. ...

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Features

Anastasia Santoreneos investigates how much income is really needed for retirement and what strategies can be used before and after retirement to ensure income is sustain...

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Financial planning

Planners’ uptake on providing advice on insurance is low, leading to adverse impacts on practice revenue derived from risk advice, Investment Trends has found....

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Financial planning

Going forward, financial planners must move to a model of radical transparency in order to retain clients and remain relevant....

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Financial planning

Financial planners are lagging in meeting client needs as far as technology goes, according to Investment Trends’ research director, Recep Peker. ...

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Funds management

The number of online investors in equities and ETFs has soared over the last year, with mobile platform functionality being a key driver behind investors’ platform choice...

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Funds management

HUB24 has recorded net inflows for FY18 of $2.4b, up 24.1 per cent on the previous corresponding period....

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