The advice business of the future: scale, through collectives

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Running an advice business will become increasingly challenging in the future, unless they can gain the necessary advantages of scale, while avoiding the issues identified by the Royal Commission into... Read more continue reading

Glen Foster joins Atrium Investment Management as Senior Portfolio Manager

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Atrium Investment Management (Atrium) has announced the appointment of Glen Foster as a Senior Portfolio Manager. Mr Foster joins Atrium with more than 15 years of financial markets experience including... Read more continue reading

Clock ticking for SMSFs with quarterly TBC report due soon

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Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) on a quarterly Transfer Balance Cap (TBC) reporting schedule must make their first lodgment with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) in three weeks, warns SMSF Association... Read more continue reading

AIA Australia welcomes David Beckham at the AIA Vitality Summit Global and local health experts attending summit in November

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AIA Australia is delighted to announce that David Beckham, OBE will visit Sydney in November of this year in his role as AIA’s Global Ambassador. The former England football captain... Read more continue reading

Protectionism through a corporate lens

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Since the beginning of the year, the Trump administration has announced a series of increasingly aggressive trade policies. In the recent detailed paper titled ‘Protectionism through a corporate lens’, Ronald... Read more continue reading

Lonsec upgrades K2 Australian Absolute Return Fund

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Research House Lonsec has upgraded its rating of the K2 Australian Absolute Return Fund to ‘Recommended’ as part of its most recent Australian Equities – Australian Long Short Sector Review.... Read more continue reading

Global companies have Australian credit investors in their sights

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What do AT&T, Heathrow Airport, General Motors, and Thames Water all have in common? All four companies have recently engaged with the Australian fixed income market in a bid to... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending 5 October, 2018

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets fell over the last week, largely in response to a renewed rise in bond yields. Commodity prices rose, although... Read more continue reading

AFA launches Meet the Educators at the AFA Conference

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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has announced it will be introducing Meet the Educators at the AFA National Adviser Conference on the Gold Coast next week. AFA Conference Chair, Michael Nowak,... Read more continue reading

CFTC and ASIC sign fintech cooperation arrangement

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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today signed an arrangement to cooperate and support innovation through each other’s financial technology (fintech)... Read more continue reading