AUSTRALIAN UNITY

Financial planning

Margin lending has always represented a part of the financial planner’s strategy toolkit but the collapse of Storm Financial soured public perceptions of leverage. Money ...

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Editorial

Retail advisers have traditionally shied away from alternative investments, but an upswing in the market could see them become a hot ticket option in 2014, particularly f...

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People & Products

J.P Morgan Asset Management has recruited Stephen Alcorn as head of institutional....

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Superannuation

SMSF trustees should look to commercial property to avoid overheated residential property investment market. ...

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Editorial

Australian Unity’s financial services business defied sluggish growth trends across the rest of the group to lift its FUM by a record $3.2 billion in the half year to Dec...

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Editorial

One of the biggest challenges that investors face is working out what impact economic, financial, political, commercial or social events will have on their investments. A...

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Financial planning

While the financial advice industry remains subject to much surveillance and scrutiny, the regulators are 10 years behind in bringing mortgage brokers to task, some claim...

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Superannuation

The superannuation guarantee needs to be drastically increased to 18 per cent for the system to become adequate, according to a financial services executive....

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Financial planning

Financial planners will need to spend a considerable amount of time building new models to help their clients navigate incoming aged care legislation, according to an ins...

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Funds management

Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has proposed to merge its Australian Unity Fifth Commercial Trust (FCT) with its unlisted Australian Unity Office Property Fund (OPF), ...

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Editorial

The Asian equities market is vulnerable to US quantitative easing in the short term, but the market itself is very diverse and the longer-term outlook stronger. ...

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Editorial

As the boom in the Australian economy recedes, investors from this country are beginning to look at rising Asian equities as a strategy to boost returns – but a sense of ...

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Funds management

New products promising high returns for low risk are often too good to be true, according to Australian Unity Investments. ...

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Funds management

Conventional investment choices and the failure to distinguish between bonds could be costing investors significant returns, a boutique fixed interest asset manager says....

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Funds management

Financial advice division the highlight of Australian Unity performance....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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

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

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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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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....

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