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Financial planning

The arrival of separate accounts will put further pressure on master trusts to reduce fees. As FIONA MOORE reports, master trusts could learn from separately managed acco...

Financial planning

Master trust and wrap providers may be less concerned about fees than they are making out. GEORGE LIONDIS digs deep into the latest fee data....

Financial planning

Choosing the correct time to invest is crucial, but as DOMINIC McCORMICK says, investing when all the indicators are wrong is foolish....

Financial planning

The March quarter market share results from both Morningstar/ Plan for Life and Assist demonstrates the volume of money currently flowing into the united groups....

Financial planning

The Australian Tax Office has handed down its first ever product ruling to the Macquarie banking group for its Macquarie Instalments IMC series, confirming the group’s de...

Financial planning

Over 33,000 investors have accepted the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) settlement offer over discredited mass marketed tax effective schemes, tax commissioner Michael Carm...

Financial planning

Research house Lonsec has put out a recommendation on the Multiplex Development Trust II after reviewing the property fund....

Financial planning

The listed property trust asset class will finish the financial year with at least its second strongest performance ever, having already achieved an index return of just ...

Financial planning

Beacon Investment Management Services has dropped the Frank Russel group in favour of InvestorWeb as the asset consultant for its multi-manager Model Choice investment op...

Financial planning

The sale of immediate annuity life insurance products have slumped to their lowest level since being made exempt from the social security assets test in 1998, the latest ...

Financial planning

The growing use of master trusts in public offer corporate superannuation has continued to boost funds under management and member levels, according to a survey conducted...

Financial planning

Australian investors have reviewed their bullish optimism over the performance of the Australian share market and are now bracing themselves for the full impact of a down...

Editorial

The investment projections of some fund managers lack basic ingredients, writes DOMINIC McCORMICK....

Editorial

Efficient market theory does work according to Kevin Bailey who writes that the problem actually lies in the advice and research clients receive....

Editorial

It has not been in my nature to forecast the future but I would like to indulge in a bit of future gazing. A debate that started in this august journal last year was the ...

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