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Editorial

The 2005 full year results for AMP have shown a 24 per cent increase in underlying contributions, the organisation’s main profitability measure which removes investment m...

Financial planning

The Australian share market has enjoyed its best start to a calendar year since it rose 4.3 per cent in January 2001, boosting median managed fund returns in the process....

Funds management

Despite consumer concerns over interest rates, the proportion of investors planning to purchase direct property in the next 12 months has dropped only slightly from 34.8 ...

Financial planning

A report into the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) commissioned by major accountancy body CPA Australia has suggested that advice provided by real estate agents and p...

Superannuation

Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...

Financial planning

Younger members of superannuation funds are more likely to switch funds than more mature aged members under the new choice regime, according to Mercer Wealth Solutions’ S...

Financial planning

Sandeep Kothari, portfolio manager of the Fidelity India Fund, is a true believer in the India story....

Editorial

BT Financial Group coined 2005 the “year of the disconnect”, because of the various anomalies occurring in the developed versus underdeveloped share markets and economies...

Financial planning

Vision Equity Living has dropped its variable interest rate on its income and combination equity release plans from 8.15 percent to 7.99 per cent....

Financial planning

Only one retail fund has featured among the top 10 rankings in a SuperRatings survey of balanced super fund performances last year....

Financial planning

Superannuation investors have enjoyed a second consecutive year of returns in the double-digits according to the 2005 Mercer Pooled Fund Survey, with the median fund in t...

Policy & Regulation

Federal Finance Minister Nick Minchin has declared his support for calls to do away with the 15 per cent superannuation contributions tax....

Financial planning

ASIC has made its regulatory presence felt in the superannuation choice of fund environment with exercises such as super switching surveillance and a current shadow shopp...

Financial planning

The new merged entity between Australian Wealth Management and Select Managed Funds, collectively with its “affiliates”, will have close to 10 per cent of all the financi...

Financial planning

Overseas property will dominate the listed property trust (LPT) sector in 2006, says researcher Property Investment Research (PIR)....

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