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Financial planning

MLC Adviser Scholarship Program helping to alleviate critical adviser shortage....

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s, in conjunction with the Australian Securities Exchange, has changed its Australian market indices to include foreign-domiciled equities and, as a resul...

Financial planning

The head of a major global fund manager has predicted the tight yield spread markets are currently experiencing worldwide are likely to last for some time to come as an i...

Life/Risk

The Federal Government has moved to tighten the rules relating to foreign insurers entering the Australian market with the introduction of a new reform package....

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Funds management

As hedge funds grow in popularity within the Australian market, comparisons are made between the $500 billion US industry and the burgeoning Australian hedge fund environ...

Financial planning

US-based global equities manager Batterymarch expects to grow Legg Mason’s global equities portfolio to $1 billion within the next 18 months....

Funds management

Dealer group Premium Wealth Management claims its Premium China Fund has become the largest unlisted China fund offered in Australia, surpassing $154 million in FUM....

Financial planning

Global investment company T. Rowe Price will boost its presence within the Australian market, focusing on providing global equity investments to retail platforms, indepen...

Financial planning

Praemium chairman Don Stammer believes the chance of the stock market dramatically crashing is becoming rarer....

Financial planning

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Financial planning

Zurich Australia has been rated the top life risk provider in the Australian market by the WA Taylor Report for the third successive year....

Funds management

Citing a shrinking pool of securitisation opportunities in the Australian market and the growing attraction of property trusts in international markets, MLC has increased...

Financial planning

The exporting of financial services is set to play a more prominent role for the Australian market in 2007, according to a senior executive at a leading financial service...

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Financial planning

Wholesale wrap platform provider Avanteos is claiming a victory after being named a leader in the third annual Investment Trends Platform Report....

Funds management

Australian investors are beginning to re-evaluate their positions in core property to try to get better value for money, according to a senior property fund manager at AM...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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