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Financial planning

State Street Global Advisers has launched an international equities ETF that it claims mitigates currency risk....

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Financial planning

The Trust Company has delayed its planned takeover by Perpetual as it seeks a meeting with Equity Trustees to discuss how the latter calculated its cost synergy figures i...

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Financial planning

Accounting and financial planning business WHK has announced it will change its name to Crowe Horwath Australasia at the end of next month, in a bid to improve the compan...

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Life/Risk

AMP Limited earnings update reveals extent of losses in Australian wealth protection division....

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Editorial

Do direct investors need protection from themselves? Jonathan Ramsay argues taking into account the fundamentals of underlying investments will pay off better than going ...

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Financial planning

Australian financial advisers appear to be sensing broader community negativity about the general outlook for the economy, according to the latest sentiment data released...

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Funds management

BlackRock Investment Management has taken out the inaugural Lonsec/Money Management Award for best exchange-traded fund (ETF) provider for 2013. ...

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Financial planning

Financial planners are being stymied by anti-money laundering laws and the onerous administration tasks involved in transferring client funds from one term deposit to ano...

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Financial planning

Industry Super Network (ISN) has claimed that high frequency trading (HFT) is creating a stock market that caters to speed and not capital allocation - and costs long-ter...

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Funds management

ASIC consultation brings ASX platform a step closer but narrows its focus....

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Superannuation

Retail investors, including the trustees of SMSFs, are now legally able to invest in Australian Government Bonds, according to Michael Hallinan of SUPERCentral....

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Financial planning

The board of The Trust Company has continued to support Perpetual’s takeover offer for the group, denying Equity Trustees (EQT) the due diligence access it had requested ...

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Life/Risk

Tower Limited has sold most of its life business to NZ-owned Fidelity Life to focus on general insurance....

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Financial planning

The Trust Company board has unanimously recommended that shareholders support the acquisition proposal by Perpetual, in the absence of a superior proposal....

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Editorial

AMP has driven solid cashflows out of its platform acquisitions, but planning firm flows prove patchy....

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