Adviser news & insights
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Do your business partners meet the 3 criteria to support your success?
The self-licencing trend has made the success of adviser businesses more closely tied to how well their service providers deliver. Desktop Broker’s Head of Distribution Tim Sparks explains how advisers need to choose business partners, not service providers, to achieve success and sleep at night.
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Transaction pending: Back to the future of advice
The days when financial advisers had hundreds, if not thousands, of inactive clients are gone but, in the emerging profession, transactional advice is set to make a comeback, says Bell Direct & Desktop Broker’s Chief Executive Officer, Arnie Selvarajah.
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What you need to know about how investment markets impact adviser business models
Advice business models are evolving, fuelled by the changing economic conditions, according to Desktop Broker’s Head of Distribution Tim Sparks.
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IPOs of 2022: 4 outperformers, 2 flops and 1 to look out for in the future
Following a record year for IPOs globally in 2021, with 3,022 new listings around the world raising US$601.2bn in total, is 2022 on the way to set another IPO record or are investors nervous about allocating money to market debutants amid rising uncertainty?
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Shopping list in 2022: milk, bread, eggs and a side of inflation
Inflation, is the word of the moment in 2022. As consumers and investors, we are living with the highest inflation rate since June 2009 just after the global financial crisis (GFC).
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How can growth stocks survive in the current market climate?
To survive post-pandemic in a market that is highly driven by investor sentiment, technology stocks need to stand out by being cash flow positive, having low levels of debt, and/or focused on diversification.
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Using ETFs to Time Markets
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are often associated with passive investing but increasingly, investors are using them to actively manage their portfolios.
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Why Afterpay, Zip and BNPL share prices are crashing
Afterpay (ASX:APT), Zip (ASX:Z1P) and Sezzle (ASX:SZL) stocks fell Tuesday after PayPal unveiled a new BNPL product.
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Why is Sezzle’s (ASX:SZL) share price down today?
The Buy Now Pay Later stock saw its share price dive more than 10% today after releasing new profit results.
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The hits and misses from reporting season
COVID-19 might’ve lowered the bar for some investors, but there have been seen some surprising winners and losers from the lockdown.
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What’s up with the price of gold?
The gold price is high, but could it go even higher? Jessica Amir sits down with Nestegg to discuss the 5 major reasons for the record highs, and what we can expect down the track.
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Asset allocation in a post-pandemic world
In times of extreme volatility, it's more important than ever to ensure proper diversification, but the decisions made now will affect performance once we return to the status quo.