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Financial services provider and online broker Sanford Ltd has reported a $17.9 million loss for the six months to December 31, 2000....

Marketing a financial planning practice is not always a difficult task and may be much easier to do than first thought. Rohan Mead finds it can be a fairly unscientific a...

While up-front commissions are facing virtual extinction, trail commissions continue to form the backbone of the revenue streams of most financial planners. Some in the i...

Residential property developments have been through one of the biggest slumps in recent times, due almost entirely to the introduction of GST....

Residential property developments have been through one of the biggest slumps in recent times, due almost entirely to the introduction of GST....

Weeding out non-profitable clients is a critical part of running a successful business, however many financial planners lack the confidence to confront these clients, acc...

Perpetual Trustees today reported a 62 per cent jump in net profit to become a stand out player in the financial services market with $27.5 million for the six months to ...

Fund managers are commonly pigeon-holed as either value managers or growth managers. Rob Keavney believes this approach, borrowed from our American cousins, is both facil...

Since bursting on to the financial services scene in the middle of last year, account aggregators or screen scrapers have been one of the hottest discussion points in the...

History is bunk according to Henry Ford but the same doesn't necessarily apply to the financial world where history can often provide valuable pointers to the future. For...

While the issue of life insurance will usually crop up at some point in discussions with a client, HELEN TROUP believes that a discussion of risk should cover the well-be...

With the recent popularity in the global biotech industry sending investors into a spin, Kate Kachor looks at the current opportunities for investing in biotechnology for...

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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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