united states

Policy & Regulation

Emerging markets need to be considered separately: Riedel

Emerging market equities should not be thought of as an investment basket, but rather as separate markets that represent individual opportunities and challenges, accordin...

Life/Risk

Australia competitive on life insurance premiums

Study reveals Australian advisers are offering highly competitive products when compared to their overseas counterparts....

Editorial

Can a resurgent USA rise above the euro crisis?

Can an improving United States offset the problems in Europe? Matt Sherwood writes....

Financial planning

The risky business of financial advice

For financial advisers, the need to be able to assess their clients’ risk is assuming far greater importance, according to Gabriel Carey....

Editorial

Financial planners start the year with a reality check

Although financial planners are in for another tough year, the Financial Planning Association's Mark Rantall believes this could be a good time to reflect on how to creat...

Financial planning

Some light at the end of the tunnel for world economies

The threat of a double-dip recession in the United States is gone, European debt is a long-term issue that is gradually being resolved, and a possible slowdown in Chinese...

Financial planning

Some light at the end of the tunnel for world economies

The threat of a double-dip recession in the United States is gone, European debt is a long-term issue that is gradually being resolved, and a possible slowdown in Chinese...

Financial planning

MLC financial advisers take a US study trip

MLC claims it is trying to improve strategic leadership skills among its financial adviser base by organising a study trip to the United States. ...

Financial planning

ASIC laments impact of AAT

ASIC has used its submission to the PJC to point to the difficulty of dealing with miscreant financial planners who appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) ma...

People & Products

Former Boeing Australia president appointed to GBST board of directors

Financial services technology provider GBST has announced the appointment of current Boeing Australia and South Pacific president Dr Ian Thomas as non-executive independe...

Financial planning

Volatile markets give financial planners a wild ride

Australian financial planners and their clients have had to live with higher than normal levels of market volatility for much of the past three years as both a consequenc...

Editorial

Investors talk themselves into a funk

Australian investors seem certain to close out the year with their allocations set to conservative and with half an eye on a struggling Europe, but as Mike Taylor reports...

Financial planning

Helmich named FPSB chairperson-elect

AMP financial planning executive Steve Helmich has been named the 2012 chairperson-elect of the Financial Planning Standards Board (FPSB) Council - an advisory body of th...

Financial planning

MF Global placed into administration

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced that MF Global Group has been placed into administration, affecting a number of companies in Aus...

Financial planning

Financial advice and retirement: a change in climate

Market volatility is changing the way financial advisers structure their clients' retirement income and the advice they are offering around it. Benjamin Levy reports on t...