It’s generally accepted that low costs, transparency and flexibility are all desirable product characteristics.

So why have exchange traded funds (ETFs) made so little headway with UK financial advisers and their clients?

ETFs fulfil the three criteria.

- Their total expense ratio is…

One of the greatest confidence tricks in modern design took place last week when the International Olympic Committee unveiled the logo for the 2012 London games – sparking widespread derision and criticism.

burningpants may be about financial services but compulsion drove…

The Chinese share market is continuing its skyward rise despite another blip at the beginning of the month wiping billions of dollars off its key indice – the Shanghai Composite Index.

Since that 8.26% drop last Monday, the market has crept…

Many Australian financial advisers are working late into the night it seems four weeks out from the changes to superannuation window closing, with more than a quarter of the industry clocking more than 50 hours a week in the office.

The…

There are now more than 200,000 registered SIPP (Self Invested Pension Plans) in the United Kingdom but it appears demand for the product has only just scratched the surface of the potential size of the market.

CoreData Research, the UK research…

Finance pundit and TV host, David Koch, met his match over the weekend despite being brave enough to go head-to-head with female beefcake and former ‘Gladiator’ Linda Byrnes (aka Flame) in a televised arm wrestle.

Byrne, who starred as Flame in…