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Financial planning

Almost half of Australians worry they won’t be able to uphold their current way of living due to growing cost pressures, a survey has revealed. ...

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Accounting

Lloyd Morgan survey shows women still lag behind men when it comes to disparity in bonus payments in the accounting profession but the gap has closed by 60 per cent in th...

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Editorial

Accommodative monetary policy in the US is set to continue, which should see the equity market climb higher, Mark Thomas writes. ...

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Funds management

Australian investors’ fear levels have fallen to the lowest levels since the global financial crisis, but the impact on capital gain expectations has been modest, new res...

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Funds management

Retail and industrial properties are at the heart of a resurgence in the commercial property sector, according to the Property Council/IPD Australia All Property Index Q2...

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Financial planning

Planner loyalty to platforms is being tested by fees and the freedom for planners to choose their own platform with two banks continuing to dominate the space...

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Superannuation

Over half of Australians have a retirement bucket list but less than one third believe they will have enough money to tick off that list, REST data showed....

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Funds management

AMP Capital announced its corporate bond fund has crossed $A1 billion in funds under management four years after becoming available to retail investors. ...

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Policy & Regulation

New research suggests bank-aligned planning groups might suffer if consumers become fully aware of their parentage....

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Financial planning

Nearly 50 per cent of financial advisers access PI insurance through one of three insurers with CGU supplying nearly a quarter of planners with PI cover....

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Top 100

Nearly 50 per cent of financial advisers access PI insurance through one of three insurers with CGU supplying nearly a quarter of planners with PI cover....

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Financial planning

Media reports suggesting AMP and the big four banks own 80 per cent of financial planners are incorrect with their actual ‘ownership’ levels of financial planners below 6...

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Top 100

Media reports suggesting AMP and the big four banks own 80 per cent of financial planners are incorrect with their actual ‘ownership’ levels of financial planners below 6...

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The number of SMSFs set up by accountants has fallen 20 per cent in the last two years according to research conducted by Investment Trends....

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Life/Risk

An alarmingly low proportion of Australians say they would use a pay increase to take out financial protection, a survey shows. ...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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

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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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