Financial planner bashing has become a national sport. The financial advice industry has battled consumer and media perceptions that advisers are a bunch of cowboys flogging products to line their …
Most of the developed world has enjoyed a population growth dividend lasting for five or six decades in preparation for dealing with an ageing population. But China has enjoyed only …
From its earliest days, digital technology has sought to help us sift through the information overload to discover relevance. While this promised to broaden our horizons it has in fact …
Since emerging in the late 1990s, the self-managed super fund (SMSF) sector in Australia has shown uninterrupted growth. According to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), as at 31 March 2019, …
Buried deep in the PhD thesis submitted by Milton Friedman in the late summer of 1940 (note 1) are a couple of jokes, which I really love. The first joke …
The final report of the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry will have to be some kind of masterpiece to meet all of the …
Like many Australians, I did a fair bit of travelling around the country over Christmas and New Year, which involved driving thousands of kilometres across NSW, Queensland and Tasmania. The …
Bugger Married at First Sight, the best TV ever is watching the Royal Commission on the feed while you are working, or better yet, listening to it as you attack yet another data …
If you’re running a business in Perth, chances are you’re doing it tough. Perth property prices have been falling due to a sharp slowdown in WA’s population growth; median rents …
How well do you speak with your policyholders? It’s not enough to deliver a message. It should be written in a way your customers understand. The Australian Competition and …
So much for the image of Aussies as enjoying a fit and healthy outdoors lifestyle. Figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare* (AIHW) reveal some worrying home truths. …
ASIC recently issued its review of the life insurance industry following several well-publicised cases of poor handling of claims. While the report has attracted considerable attention, one important aspect has …
The new Life Insurance Code of Practice is hot off the press from the FSC. But will it resonate with consumers after an extended bout of bad publicity? According to …
