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People & Products

Vanguard Investments Australia’s chairman and managing founder, Jeremy Duffield, will retire at the end of the year....

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Financial planning

ASIC has revealed that the fees and charges it imposes reached $582 million last financial year....

Editorial

Subdued market conditions undermine Macquarie’s half-year profit....

Financial planning

Suncorp has moved to bed down the Promina merger with a restructure via the creation of a non-operating holding company....

People & Products

The head of the banking and financial services group at Macquarie Bank, Peter Maher, has been elected chairman of the Financial Services Council (FSC) at its annual gener...

Financial planning

ASIC claims it does not want more coercive powers, but remains firm on the need for access to phone taps....

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Financial planning

SSFS is looking for a new managing director after incumbent Peter McKillop announced his retirement....

Editorial

On the eve of discussions with KKR, Perpetual has made a cautious profit forecast....

Financial planning

Curbing the banks’ ability to comment on their funding costs and interest rate intentions would result in a one-sided public debate, the Australian Bankers’ A...

Financial planning

A large proportion of industry super funds have high numbers of relatively small investment mandates, ultimately driving up the cost of investment management for members....

Editorial

Financial planners must rebut the Industry Super Network's claim that asset-based fees are commissions by another name, writes Mike Taylor....

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Superannuation

The Cooper Review panel may have suggested otherwise, but Mike Taylor writes that the exponential growth in the number of self-managed superannuation funds and the invest...

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Financial planning

Fiona Balfour will join Tower Australia as an independent non-executive director to the board, effective immediately....

Financial planning

Senate estimates has been told that ASIC has used its coercive powers nearly 17,000 times in the past three years....

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Editorial

Van Eyk Research improved its bottom line last financial year, with revenue generated from investment management services outstripping that from research subscriptions....

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