MARKET VOLATILITY

Life/Risk

Australian insurers will spend $5.2 billion on IT products and services in 2012, according to technology research company Gartner....

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Funds management

Centuria Property Funds has seen a pickup in enquiries from financial planners over the past four months as an increase in volatility sends investors back to unlisted pro...

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Financial planning

Responsible investment has attracted increasing interest from financial planners and this interest is set to increase with the commitment of the Government to the introdu...

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Editorial

Strategic asset allocation may represent the conventional approach but Dominic McCormick questions whether it deserves the credibility it carries....

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Financial planning

Listed property appears to be returning to its previous model and slowly becoming a defensive asset again, resulting in more positive financial adviser and investor attit...

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Editorial

The August market downturn gave the world a big scare and investors seemed to have run for the hills in fear the nightmare from 2008 was returning. Ron Bewley tries to ma...

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Financial planning

Australian organisations perform above average compared with their global peers when it comes to enterprise risk management (ERM) practices, yet only half have built a ri...

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Superannuation

Australians appear to better understand what it takes to fund a comfortable retirement....

Editorial

Post global financial crisis regulation, changing government policy and a shift in demographics have created a very different investment landscape to that of previous dec...

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Financial planning

All Star's property fund accepted on key platforms....

Editorial

Recent market events have put an emphasis on the value of gold, leaving investors curious to know whether investing in this commodity would be a good decision. Dominic Mc...

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Editorial

Paul Taylor points to several positives that have been overlooked amidst the nervousness surrounding the equity market volatility....

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Superannuation

Investors are turning to their superannuation funds for help and direction as a third successive year of volatility and poor returns hits their livelihoods, with retirees...

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Superannuation

Investors are turning to their superannuation funds for help and direction as a third successive year of volatility and poor returns hits their livelihoods, with retirees...

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Superannuation

Institute of Chartered Accountants specialist Liz Westover joins with the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal in pointing out the sensitivity around rollovers in volatile ...

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

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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