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Australians own more shares directly than anyone else in the world but are as likely to get stock tips from a newspaper as from a financial planner, according to a study ...

Financial planning

Perpetual Trustees has been given the green light by Irish authorities to kick off its new Dublin-based global equities business, with the go-ahead coinciding with today’...

Financial planning

Australian Wealth Management began life positively today with early trading on the Australian Stock Exchange seeing its share price jump 16 per cent before levelling out...

Financial planning

Shareholders of New Zealand based Tower Limited have “overwhelmingly” backed the move to spin off the firm’s Australian Wealth Management businesses and enter an underwri...

Funds management

Macquarie Funds Management today launched a new private equity arm which it intends to list on the Australian Stock Exchange, providing investors with exposure to unliste...

Financial planning

AXA Asia Pacific is continuing to set new share price highs today on the back of yesterday’s announcement that fund flows and new life business grew strongly for the 12 m...

Financial planning

Listed financial services and planning group DKN Financial has asked shareholders with a small holding in the company to sell their stake in attempt to save on administra...

Financial planning

Good stockpicking will be more obviously rewarded in 2005 than it was during the blanket gains of the Australian equity market this year, according to Tyndall Investment ...

Financial planning

Listed managed investments came of age in 2004, with the Australian Stock Exchange reporting 24 new listings and 44 per cent growth in LMI trading during the year....

Financial planning

Australian investment managers are predicting a jump in demand for alternative investments in 2005 as investors go in search of opportunities in a slowing equities market...

Financial planning

Tower-owned advice firm Bridges Financial Services has lost its chief executive Chris Wren following an executive make-over of the Trans-Tasman firm’s wealth management a...

Financial planning

Aviva-owned platform provider Navigator has added direct shares to its investment platform in an attempt to tap into the increasing popularity of direct investing amongst...

Editorial

Retail investors are diving into option trading, writes Dominic McCormick. But will they be out of their depth when markets take a plunge?...

Financial planning

Rivkin Financial Services may have a saviour in sight with IWL shelling out more than $2.5million to take a 10 per cent stake in the embattled group founded by disgraced ...

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager MFS Group is set to list on the Australian Stock Exchange via a ‘back-door’ listing after announcing plans to merge with a publicly floated investme...

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