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Financial planning

Master trust provider Finium Financial Services has announced changes to its International Shares Pool within the Finium Super Master Plan, following the firm’s decision ...

Financial planning

How a rating house conducts its research has been a contentious issue for some time, but as Jason Spits writes, fund managers are still seeking an open and wide-ranging p...

Financial planning

Listed investment companies (LICs) dominated capital raising activity on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in the March 2004 quarter, with five LICs raising a total of ...

Funds management

Almost two-thirds of financial advisers polled in a recent survey remain confident equity markets will continue to rise this year....

Financial planning

The number of Australians investing in superannuation is at its highest level since December 1997 despite a lack of investor enthusiasm to pump more money into super, acc...

Financial planning

Financial planners believe that managed funds research houses should provide more information on market trends and institutional ownership is a conflict of interest, acco...

Financial planning

The Federal Opposition has sought to take control of the superannuation debate by renewing its promise to reduce the contributions tax to 13 per cent at the same time as ...

Financial planning

The continued recovery of the Australian share market boosted manager performance again in February with growth managers continuing their upward trend, according to the l...

Financial planning

Hunter Hall International is yet to name a new chief investment officer, despite reporting a 55 per cent increase in funds under management for the first half of the fina...

Financial planning

The top 10 listed agribusiness stocks posted more than 80 per cent returns, with an average of 134 per cent, outperforming the All Ordinaries, Dow Jones, FTSE and Nasdaq ...

Financial planning

IOOF has settled its long running dispute with the management team at Perennial Value Management following the striking of a deal to give the latter’s executives more con...

Financial planning

Financial services training and education provider Tribeca has announced a 27 per cent growth in sales revenue and earnings for the first quarter of the financial year fo...

Financial planning

Investors should increase their exposure to alternative assets from 5 to 20 per cent through a greater spread of investments and in turn boost portfolio diversification, ...

Financial planning

ING Australia will reverse the trend to move into retail with the launch of a wholesale version of its retail Tax Effective Income Trust tomorrow following the fund’s str...

Financial planning

Strong inflows and solidly performing equity markets have assisted in expanding the size of the retail managed funds market by 4.3 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2003 ...

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