Inflation or Deflation: Are we about to find out?

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Avid readers of The van Eyk View and our other publications know all too well the importance we give to inflation regimes as predictors of future returns. In fact, in

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Advisers and accountants can work together

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Since the announcement in June this year by the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, of the removal of the Accountant’s Exemption, there has been much discussion about

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Investors who chase fund performance destined to be disappointed

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Many investors who invest in a managed fund that has been performing strongly are destined to be disappointed by its subsequent performance, an analysis by van Eyk Research shows.  van

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Volatility needs active management to avoid lower returns

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Volatility strategies designed to combat the gyrations in equities markets need to be actively managed to ensure investors can reduce their losses when markets fall without sacrificing overall returns, van

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Strong alliances bring more clients

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Financial planners need to work at building and maintaining alliance partnerships, but those that work are a great source of new business.          Client referrals from an alliance partner (also known

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van Eyk refines its ratings system for Exchange-Traded Funds

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Leading investment researcher and ratings house van Eyk has changed the way it rates exchange-traded funds to reflect the important differences between ETFs and other managed funds. van Eyk has

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Business operations the missing link in many advice practices says Encore

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Efficient, scalable business operations are the missing link in many financial advice practices because the area is often deemed too hard to fix and not “sexy”, according to Graham Peatey,

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van Eyk realigns its strategy to meet the new investment market challenges

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Investment research provider and ratings house van Eyk is addressing the challenges of the future by realigning its research resources and output with its long term asset allocation strategy.  van

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New Volatility Buffer Fund aims to help investors profit from sharemarket falls

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van Eyk, through its Blueprint Series of managed funds, is seeking to provide investors the opportunity to benefit from market volatility and sharemarket falls with the launch of the new

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The colour of money

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Banks have used a complex series of loans to create billions of dollars of new liquidity but have also made the financial system more unstable. Hypothetical collateral – that was

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