Investors see Alternatives as key diversifier

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Lonsec Research Releases Alternatives Sector Review According to Lonsec Research’s recently released Alternatives Sector Review, alternative funds have significantly underperformed both equity and bond benchmarks over the last five years,... Read more continue reading

LoanDolphin completes $1.1 million seed funding with backing of financial planning magnate Barry Lambert

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LoanDolphin, Australia’s leading loan bidding platform, has successfully raised a total of $1.1 million from key investors to expand its presence in major capital cities in a bid to claim... Read more continue reading

International share trading made easy for financial advisers by Macrovue

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Macrovue, Australia’s first global thematic brokerage and trading platform, has taken the wraps off a new global share trading solution aimed at easing complexity, time, and costs for Australian financial... Read more continue reading

Bennelong Funds Management to expand into UK

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Bennelong Funds Management (Bennelong) has identified a number of exciting investment managers in the UK and, after a considerable review, has decided to open an office in London, establishing a... Read more continue reading

Accountants face a bright future but on one condition, according to new paper

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Accounting will be one of the next professions savaged by digital disruption with up to 40 per cent of the work traditionally completed by accountants already being done by cloud-based... Read more continue reading

Housing bubble inflating, RBA needs to curb demand

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The Reserve Bank of Australia will need the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority to reign in home lending once again, or lift interest rates, or do both to avert a dangerous... Read more continue reading

Macquarie Wrap expands range of managed fund and SMA investment options

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Macquarie Wrap has expanded its investment offering, adding a further 54 managed funds and 20 separately managed accounts[1] (SMAs) to the platform in the past year. This brings the total... Read more continue reading

Senator John Williams guest speaker at Consumer Choice Awards

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Nationals Senator for NSW, Senator John Williams will be guest speaker at the Inaugural Consumer Choice Awards (the Awards) to be held on 15th November at the InterContinental Hotel in... Read more continue reading

SMSFs continue to invest in assets they understand

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SMSF trustees are still consistently investing in assets they understand and can trade easily, says Peter Hogan, Head of Technical at the SMSF Association. “Australian Taxation Office (ATO) figures show... Read more continue reading

Profile Financial Services makes two senior appointments to support recent strong growth

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Financial advisory and wealth management firm, Profile Financial Services, has made two senior appointments to support its recent strong growth. Jerome Bodisco has become Head of Investments. He has extensive... Read more continue reading