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Access to economic and education opportunities increases women’s ability to withstand and recover from financial shocks.
Five years ago, Australia had 28,000 financial advisers. Today there are 16,000. So where can you get financial advice? A new report offers a good answer – and it’s something I used to argue against.
On Friday the government will receive a report likely to recommend a requirement for advice in a client’s “best interests” be replaced with a requirement to give mere “good advice”.
Lowering education standards for financial adviser will do nothing to give the community more confidence in the industry.
Depending on circumstances, it may be time to re-think the bias to paying down housing debt over wealth accumulation in super. At least to do the sums, so you can make an informed choice.
You may not need to sell the family home before entering aged care. There are other options.
That’s to meet your basic needs and have a little leftover for fun.
Two new measures of financial well-being contain surprises and show many people believe they are doing better than you might think.
The banks get most of the blame in Commissioner Hayne’s explosive report, but there’s some for us as well.
Rather than introducing still more laws to regulate banks there is a case for stripping down the ones we have got to make their aims crystal clear, Commissioner Hayne says in his interim report.
Members of House Standing Committee on Economics should be asking the directors of Australia’s Big Four banks (not the CEOs) different questions, if they really want the right answers.
How do you sell something that solves a problem customers don’t know they have?
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has given banks a bollocking for unethical behaviour, suggesting they have not repaid the support they received during the global financial crisis.
Let’s face facts. Behavioural finance shows you are not to be trusted with your retirement planning.
The clear case of regulatory capture in Australia’s financial system is grounds for a new oversight body.
While financial planning is on the pathway to professionalism, its education standards continue to be the subject of much discussion – and for good reason. The current standards set by ASIC mandate a comparatively…
Last week brought the latest instalment in the continuing Australian financial planning industry saga. Senators Jacqui Lambie and Ricky Muir blocked the Abbott government’s rollback of some of Labor’s…
Earlier this month, we learned that the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history would also be among the swiftest. The emergency manager for Detroit filed for bankruptcy in the summer of 2013 without a…
Under changes proposed by the government, financial planners will be required to register with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission from next March. They will need to provide details of…
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Associate Professor in Accounting, The University of Queensland
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