In Practice

Bill Prendergast discusses the role of fixed income and its role in portfolios today.

As a financial adviser, making the right decisions matters. Not just for your client’s investment returns but for your confidence as well.

Specialist self-managed super fund advisers need to tread cautiously before giving a client “wholesale investor” status.

The fact that just 281 complaints were lodged about ‘failure to act in client’s best interests’ and 241 for the providing “inappropriate advice’, shows the legislative changes may well be having a positive impact on the industry. 

Advancing technologies, the explosion of ‘big data’ and greater regulation are changing the shape of financial advisers in the investment industry,

. Whether it was renewable energy, carbon or cryptocurrency, investors of all types are naturally optimistic, often seeking to allocate capital to the sectors and businesses that are building towards the future.

It was clearly an incredibly tough beginning of the year for advisers and consultants building multi-asset portfolios.

As one of the lawyers at the coalface of supporting impacted consumers both before and after the revelations of the Royal Commission, Maurice Blackburn is in a unique position to provide input into the Quality of Advice review.

With the RBA moving rates up another 50bps to 1.35 per cent, investors are sitting on the sidelines waiting to see if its punch was hard enough to contain inflation.

“Greenwashing” has once again been highlighted as the major challenge for the financial advice industry when it comes to embracing responsible and ethical investment options.

Many studies have shown that the number one-way financial advisers find new clients is by getting referrals from their existing clients, this is true in many other industries as well – it is an age-old way to grow your business.

June 10 was the closing date of what may well become the most important review of the financial advice industry in its short history