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FPA comes of age with practice pass

It passed. The FPA’s code of professional practice has been developed over several years and is now positioned right at the very centre ... [more]

Retirees value advice, but
ASIC says quality is poor

New research from Investment Trends (IT) reveals that financial planners believe about a third of clients will not achieve their retirement income goals ... [more]

Estate planning for
the Modern Family

What constitutes a family in the twenty-first century? Nothing explains it better than television’s light-hearted sitcom, Modern Family, writes Gareth Colgan.  [more]

Targeting the other four

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Steven Travis explains the thinking behind Sunsuper’s On Track financial planning service. It is a damning statistic that only one in five Australians ... [more]

Making cash look uninteresting

It may have been a good idea to be in cash in late 2008, but it may be less appealing now, in this ... [more]

Debunking the safe haven fallacy

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of this bear market has been the debunking of what we at The Intelligent Investor have dubbed the ... [more]

Australia’s blue chips are not cheap

One of the great things about “web 2.0” is interactivity. Each day on The Intelligent Investor’s website, our analysts field questions from our ... [more]

The whole tooth, and nothing but the truth

Back in March, I introduced you to Dr Steinig, my endodontist, who had just performed some root canal surgery on me. I related ... [more]

Fairies at the end of the garden?

On just one day during the sharemarket’s latest profit reporting season, the following headlines appeared on the website of a major metropolitan newspaper: ... [more]

A contrary approach to going global

The arguments in favour of having a little international diversification are well known, but their proponents have had their patience severely tested in ... [more]