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 …
Like most people my age, I must admit that I spend many hours on social media, which is probably many hours more than I should. One viral post doing the …
The caning meted out to the financial advice industry in the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry might have been avoided if advice were …
Rubbish in, rubbish out. The art of asking the right questions My three-year old has just hit the “why” stage. “Where are we going mummy?” To the shops. “Why?” To …
The Financial Planning Association of Australia (FPA) has joined the swelling chorus of voices supporting changes to how financial planners are licensed and authorised to give advice. The licensing regime …
Financial planning licensees controlled by the big four banks and AMP account between for approximately 7800 authorised representatives, or in truth, about half the active market. With ANZ selling its …
Unless you have been living under a rock, which might actually have been a better option for some, the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services …
On the face of it, the aged care and financial planning sectors are worlds apart. One is undergoing deregulation while the other is fending off the legislators with a big …
Last Sunday Essendon lost to Melbourne in the AFL and a story to make the media rounds was Brendon Goddard’s on-field spat with a few of his younger teammates. What …
Over the last few months, those in the business of crisis management have been gifted more fodder for promoting their services than they could ever have hoped to get their …
A tourist is travelling through Ireland. He stops a local and asks for directions: “How do I get to Dublin?” The local earnestly responds: “Well, Sir, if I was going …
