Looking across the investment landscape for clear winners and losers is not a simple task, with more grey than black and white coming into view. While performances are be...

The launch of an advice business by van Eyk has been questioned by a planning group and cautiously received by another research house...

With post-retirement planning emerging as a major issue in 2014, Andrew Gale argues that there needs to be less focus on products and more focus on advice-based solutions...

Mercer has developed a tool it claims will help super fund members determine if they're on track for a comfortable retirement. ...

AXA Investment Managers has picked up a key mandate, announcing that Mercer's investment business in Australia has allocated $150 million to AXA IM's global investment gr...

Retail advisers have traditionally shied away from alternative investments, but an upswing in the market could see them become a hot ticket option in 2014, particularly f...

Mercer research shows Australian super funds have 50 per cent of assets invested in equities, on par with the UK, USA and Canada. ...

Funds under management and advice (FUM/A) held in retail and wholesale managed funds shot up by 16.4 per cent to $953 billion in the 12 months to September....

MySuper model should have covered post-retirement goals instead of lump sum accumulation only....

This month, PortfolioConstruction Forum asked the research houses: For what types of funds are performance fees warranted, and what is a reasonable performance fee struct...

Mike Taylor writes that the FPA’s referral arrangement with big industry fund Cbus represents yet another indicator that, having lost the war prosecuted by the industry f...

NSW Government has placed Pillar Administration back on the sales block....

Mercer's David Knox applauds Australia's early move to defined contributions superannuation. ...

Australian super system ranks third for overall quality, adequacy and sustainability. ...