Securitor has expanded its internal research team from seven to 13 over the past 12 months as it moves to take a greater responsibility for research in-house, with more g...

Mary Ferizis outlines the key legislative changes regarding margin lending, and the impact the changes will have on financial advice....

Matthew McLenaghan explains how to make a bond fund perform when interest rates are rising....

Everest Financial Group's largest shareholder, the Wingate Group, is seeking to have the current board overthrown and replaced with three new directors....

APRA has released a discussion paper that seeks to dramatically broaden its supervisory mandate to cover diverse financial conglomerates, which it considers are currently...

Risk management is often viewed as something of a thankless task. Sonnie Bailey discusses the best way to sell the concept to clients....

Adhering to some basic guiding principles will help investors avoid some of the hidden pitfalls presented by the current Australian equities market, writes Michelle Lopez...

The Treasury’s whistleblowing options paper has attracted a varied response, some of it condemning the approach as a step in the wrong direction....

Mortgage brokers have been going through an evolutionary period since the new National Credit Protection Legislation came into effect on January 1, and the challenges the...

Standard & Poor’s has released the ratings of funds in its multi-sector review, including 77 capabilities from 15 different fund managers across the wholesale and retail ...

AIST calls for subsidisation of pre-retirement financial advice and tax deductibility for other advice....

Claire Wivell Plater, director of Gold Seal Risk Management Services, has questioned the need for imposing a fiduciary duty on financial advisers, who she proposes in man...

New Watson Wyatt research has defined the extreme risks confronting investors....

In the wake of recent corporate scandals and the global financial crisis, Ray Griffin asks whether the label ‘financial planner’ has become a burden to the industry....