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Editorial

Count Financial (Count) has posted a preliminary record net profit after tax (NPAT) of $52 million in the company's latest earning guidance and dividend announcement....

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Financial planning

Small businesses are waiting longer and longer to be paid - mostly by bigger businesses. ...

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Financial planning

One in five Baby Boomers still expect to help their adult-children buy their first home, a RaboDirect survey has found. ...

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Editorial

Many experts look at the bond market as an indicator for future inflationary changes. Dominic McCormick argues recent events, particularly in the US, prove otherwise....

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Editorial

Brazil, Russia, India and China formed a block of countries that returned well to their investors over the past decade. Tom Stevenson tries to predict which countries cou...

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Editorial

Dr Ron Bewley explains what volatility means, and whether reports of 'volatile markets' in the past couple of years have been accurate....

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Superannuation

A Multiport survey of 1,600 SMSFs has found trustees using limited recourse borrowing arrangements moved away from property and towards financial assets in the June quart...

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Financial planning

Financial planning roles have increased 17 per cent year-on-year, showing stronger demand for financial planning staff as firms continue to recover from the GFC....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank's FUM has been impacted by soft markets and a strong dollar, but FirstChoice flows remain strong....

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Editorial

Many investors are bullish about China’s growth prospects, but over-investment in unproductive asset classes by the Chinese authorities should be ringing alarm bells, wri...

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Financial planning

Almost half of Generation Y buyers will buy an investment property as their first purchase, putting aside the traditional 'Australian Dream' of a home, according to a sur...

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Financial planning

Inflows into the life insurance risk market have grown 10.4 per cent over the year to March 2011, reaching $9.5 billion....

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Superannuation

Chant West points to the strong Australian dollar cutting returns by as much as 3 per cent....

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Superannuation

The median growth superannuation fund recorded a 9.2 per cent return last financial year, with industry funds finishing just a nose in front....

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Superannuation

New research suggests Britons are in denial about saving for an adequate retirement....

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