
Six dangers when seeking super fund advice
I have been writing about, or working in or on the sidelines of the financial services industry for 20-odd years and the regulator and the advising industry are only now, in 2011, really grappling with how consumers make investment decisions and the influential role that advisers and financial organisations hold in distributing investment products.
THE SOAPBOX: Trish’s four lessons from the GFC (Grab-For-Cash)
I was holidaying in Europe when the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) officially hit in October 2008 (although investment markets had been falling dramatically since December 2007). The impact of the GFC saw the United Kingdom bail out its major banks. [...]


