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ETF specialist company BetaShares has described 2011 as having been a watershed year for the Australian ETF industry, with ASX listed ETFs attracting over $500 million in...

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Financial planning

Australian financial planners and their clients have had to live with higher than normal levels of market volatility for much of the past three years as both a consequenc...

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Financial planning

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has approved the Commonwealth Bank's acquisition of Count Financial....

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Financial planning

Eligible employees will each be offered up to $1,000 of ordinary shares under the Macquarie Group Employee Share Plan....

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Editorial

Managed funds are supposedly a non-transparent and expensive way of investing, while ETFs are increasingly touted as low cost investment saviours. Graham Hand outlines ho...

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Funds management

Australian exchange traded funds more than doubled their September intake in October, increasing total market capitalisation by $342 million to $5.2 billion....

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Superannuation

Aaron Dunn lists some of the strategies that self-managed super fund members can start to think about to help bolster their superannuation savings in recovering markets....

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Financial planning

Major considerations for investors in Asia are the same as for any asset class - risk and return. In Asia though, the potential returns and risks can be very different fr...

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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced that MF Global Group has been placed into administration, affecting a number of companies in Aus...

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Financial planning

With Chi-X Australia launched yesterday as a competitor to the Australian Securities Exchange, the take-up of Iress Market Technology's multi-market solution has been a s...

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Financial planning

AMP platforms perform well amid testing times....

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Financial planning

IOOF's proposed takeover of DKN is due to go ahead today, after it received approval from the Supreme Court of Victoria....

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Editorial

The August market downturn gave the world a big scare and investors seemed to have run for the hills in fear the nightmare from 2008 was returning. Ron Bewley tries to ma...

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Financial planning

Financial planning revenue made up 13 per cent of total group revenue for Countplus in the 2010-11 financial year, according to the company's full-year results posted on ...

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People & Products

The Australian Stock Exchange has employed Elmer Funke Kupper as its new managing director and chief executive officer, who is expected to commence his new role in Octobe...

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