Just like mullets and jumpsuits, or a rogue ex-boyfriend, often the past comes back to haunt us.

Investors spent last year watching the Australian economy wriggle free of the global downturn with merely a few scratches, while other nations scrambled to…

There is a new idea stalking the Australian economy and it’s something that we had all better get used to – it’s the idea that the Government knows best.

Technically, we haven’t had a government that’s behaved this way since 1983.…

What a week in Australian politics. Not only did Kevin Rudd have the political rug pulled from under him, the nation appointed its first female Prime Minister.

Or rather, the Caucus did.

Immediately after the announcement that Julia Gillard had taken over…

Four years have passed since the FSA launched its Retail Distribution Review (RDR) in June 2006.

To put this into chronological context of the World Cup football fever that had, up until this week, gripped the nation – in June 2006,…

Britain’s financial advisers are becoming a little cheesed off at the latest so-called crusade by regulators to make the industry a safer place for consumers to venture.

Advisers will be required to hold ‘a statement of professional standing’, according to a…

The suspension of the next three quarterly dividend payments from BP has suddenly alerted many to the issue of concentration risk, or the high proportion of dividend income that comes from relatively few companies.

The risk is evidenced by the fact…