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Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has emerged a winner for customer satisfaction despite it being embroiled in scandals and bad publicity....

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Financial planning

Financial planning practices are keen to grow their client base in the year ahead, but few intend on boosting planner numbers to achieve this, a survey reveals....

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Policy & Regulation

The ATO has warned property developers not to use trusts to give back proceeds from property as capital gains rather than income....

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Financial planning

Overall planner numbers have fallen for the fourth consecutive year with the non-institutionally owned sector losing more than 10 per cent in 12 months...

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Superannuation

The bulk of advisers expect SMSF revenue to grow by more than 25 per cent over the next three years, largely driven by referrals from accountants, a CoreData survey has r...

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Rate the raters

While research houses view their pay model as the centrepiece of their offering, fund managers are more concerned about timely and digestable results, writes Jason Spits...

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Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority claims 11 entities it regulates are in the “intensive care ward” but doesn’t name them....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has claimed the outperformance of industry funds highlights the need for the separation between product and advice in the retail sector....

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Superannuation

Self-Managed Superannuation Fund service providers with origins in accounting tend to be bigger and more profitable than those that started out as financial planner or ad...

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Superannuation

Superannuation fund members are more engaged and satisfied with their fund than they have been for the past three years with indications they would continue to use their ...

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Funds management

Superannuation funds are benefiting from strong returns produced by listed equities, as the sector recorded a second successive year of double-digit growth in the 2013/14...

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Financial planning

Prime Financial Group Ltd has settled the first part of its expansion plan for combined accounting and wealth management investments. ...

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Superannuation

An underwhelming June performance did not stop super funds seeing double digit returns in the 2013/14 financial year....

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Financial planning

Median managers across all major investment classes posted above index performance for the past financial year according to statistics released by Morningstar as part of ...

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Superannuation

Far from being a drain on the economy, Australia’s retirees have the potentials to be core to helping rebuild the nation’s infrastructure for years to come, a report from...

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