Lucinda Beaman

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A stagnant investment environment has stifled the oxygen of start-up capital and inflows for new investment businesses over the past year, particularly those wanting to s...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has turned its attention to the inner workings of the investment research industry, including research houses'...

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19 December 2010

In the wake of former Astarra Asset Management investment manager Shawn Richard pleading guilty to taking more than $6.4 million in undisclosed payments, the details of o...

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15 December 2010

Advisers and investors burnt by the collapse of the Prime Retirement and Aged Care Property Trust believe they have identified significant wrongdoing in the management of...

14 December 2010

The first meeting of the Government’s financial advice advisory panel was held in Sydney yesterday, but the panel members have been asked to keep the issues discuss...

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13 December 2010

While there has been some speculation that Perpetual would be the next logical takeover target in a rapidly consolidating Australian wealth management industry, few expec...

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13 December 2010

Craig Dunn’s AMP was the victor in its heated battle to acquire AXA Asia Pacific, leaving National Australia Bank to lick its wounds....

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12 December 2010

Customers of The Rock Building Society, which has strong ties with some financial planning companies, were overcharged more than $150,000 in unjustified fees over the pas...

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9 December 2010

BT Financial Group general manager of advice, Mark Spiers, has canvassed the concepts of an adviser register and industry-wide standardised compliance audit procedures as...

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7 December 2010

The details of one of Australia’s most substantial cases of investment fraud have been laid bare....

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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SuperRatings has shared the median estimated return for balanced superannuation funds for the calendar year 2024, finding the year achieved “strong and consistent positiv...

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Original bidder Bain Capital, which saw its first offer rejected in December, has returned with a revised bid for Insignia Financial....

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The FAAA has secured CSLR-related documents under the FOI process, after an extended four-month wait, which show little analysis was done on how the scheme’s cost would a...

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