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Financial planning

A national savings summit may sound somewhat grandiose but I believe it is now vital to Australia that the bell should be rung....

Funds management

Australia’s residential property boom will grind to a halt under the weight of rising interest rates, however baby boomers will ensure investors still make money out of d...

Financial planning

A recent report by Rice Kachor predicts that Australia’s financial services industry will swing convincingly to the retail side of the industry by 2010. Stuart Engel look...

Financial planning

Treasurer Peter Costello’s mention of the “s” word following his budget address has brought a chorus of approval and demands from the financial services industry....

Financial planning

Early retirement due to difficulty in finding work will soon be a thing of the past. According to a BIS Shrapnel report, employment problems faced by older people will di...

Financial planning

Superannuation and retirement savings should be the subject of a federal government review, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA)....

Financial planning

There are a number of anomalies that you come across when you examine the op-eration of the Australian superannuation system. ...

Superannuation

The retirement income streams industry is blooming. The value of its funds under management has soared over the past five years and its future looks just as bright as mor...

Financial planning

Earlier this year, Credit Suisse burst onto the retail financial services stage with great performance figures but no customers to appreciate them. Six months down the tr...

Financial planning

Wanted: Financial planners. Start: yesterday. There is a chronic shortage of skilled financial planners emerging, as demand for high end planners far outstrips supply. ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association is developing a concerted campaign to put retirement income issues on the Federal Government's agenda. Here, Michael McKenna puts the c...

Financial planning

Perpetual Funds Management has warned of a savings gap "time bomb" between the income Australians want in retirement and the lump sum they expect will provide it....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

1 month 3 weeks 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...

4 months ago

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

4 weeks ago

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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