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The ASX has been chastised for continuing weaknesses in its supervision of the warrants market and disclosure provisions in the listing rules, in a generally upbeat asses...

Financial planning

Kerry Packer-backed fund manager Challenger Financial Services will tap into soon-to-be retiring baby boomers’ thirst for yield, by listing its own infrastructure fund on...

Funds management

Mariner Financial has become the latest fund manager to launch an American property trust, the Mariner American Property Income Trust, which it claims will target high-yi...

Financial planning

Australia is one of the top ten countries for creating high-net-worth individuals, with 134,000 of us now having investable assets of more than US$1 million excluding hom...

Financial planning

A new listed property security debuts on the Australian Stock Exchange this morning, with Charter Hall Group taking its property trust and attached management company to ...

Financial planning

Client demand is driving the increasing popularity of listed investments among advisers, with 83 per cent now using them in client portfolios according to a new survey....

Financial planning

A company’s level of social responsibility has become a bigger factor in the management of AMP Capital Investors’ sustainable and mainstream Australian equity funds, foll...

Financial planning

You have to be of a certain age to remember it, but at one stage back in the 1980s there was five times as much money in unlisted property funds and syndicates as there w...

Financial planning

Colonial First State is close to losing its tag as Australia’s biggest fund manager to a boisterous Macquarie Bank, with the latter’s funds under management growing at 9 ...

Financial planning

Far fewer Australians are seeking financial advice, yet paradoxically they think the standard of that advice has dramatically improved, according to a survey of 25,000 co...

Financial planning

The margin lending market has grown to record highs on the back of buoyant equity market returns, new figures show....

Financial planning

MLC is claiming to have achieved better after-tax returns and lower transaction costs just months after introducing it unique ‘emulation’ method for running a multi-manag...

Financial planning

The margin lending market has grown to record highs on the back of buoyant equity market returns, new figures show....

Financial planning

The Australian Retirement Fund (ARF) has become the first industry fund to offer an investment option that allows its members to buy and trade shares using their superann...

Policy & Regulation

Advisers from Bridges Financial Planning could be more than $100,000 better off on average, after their owner - Tower spin-off Australian Wealth Management- made a relati...

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