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Financial planning

03 Feb

Tyndall focuses on better year ahead

Tyndall Investment Management has put the nightmare of the past year behind it to focus on a successful 2000, according to executive director Michael Good....

Financial planning

03 Feb

No rosy picture from Caton

This year is going to be tougher for investors than 1999, according to one leading economist. BT Fund Management’s chief economist Dr Chris Caton told delegates at an AMP...

Financial planning

02 Feb

ASIC forms education and training advisory board

A new training and educational advisory body has been established by the Austra-lian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

28 Jan

ASIC nabs two more advisers

Two more advisers have been up before the courts as a result of two Australian Se-curities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigations....

Financial planning

24 Jan

Assirt gives Tyndall thumbs up

Research group Assirt has given Tyndall Investment Management a cautious thumbs up after finding Tyndall did not significantly change its management approach in the last ...

Financial planning

20 Jan

2000: The year of the hangover?

Industry pundits believe that planning groups and fund managers could be set for a tough year in 2000, following 1999 buying revelry. Samantha Walker investigates just wh...

Financial planning

20 Jan

Putnam joins Oz invasion

Another US manager is to hit our shores, following the recent announcement by Rothschild Australia Asset Management (RAAM) that it is to hand over more than $800 million ...

Financial planning

20 Jan

FPA complaints scheme folded into FICS

The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) complaints resolution scheme is to be rolled into the operations of its only competitor....

Financial planning

20 Jan

Paraplanners get set for regulation

Contract paraplanners may be painted into a corner under proposals being consid-ered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Paraplanning outsourc...

Financial planning

20 Jan

FPA hits out at age pension by means test

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has criticised proposals to include assets held in private trusts and private companies as part of the means test for the age pen...