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Funds management

Good buying opportunities exist in industrial property, with high quality assets to be found on an 8.25 per cent yield, according to Charter Hall Direct Property’s ...

Funds management

Professional Investment Holdings has managed to offload a bulky property asset from its books ahead of its proposed merger with Centrepoint Alliance....

Financial planning

As the prospect of a higher superannuation guarantee (SG) hangs in the balance, Australia's biggest super fund has released research highlighting the improvements a highe...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is facing pressure to report on its use of an extensive set of data collected from the financial services indu...

Financial planning

452 Capital equities analyst Nathan Parkin has left to join Perpetual Investments....

Financial planning

The global financial crisis (GFC) was perhaps a male crisis that could have had a softer landing if there were more women in the banking and finance sector, according to ...

Superannuation

A number of SMSF advisers surveyed by the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals’ Association of Australia have supported a restricted licence for accountants advisi...

Financial planning

AMP chief executive Craig Dunn has warned against what he sees will be permanent damage to competition in the wealth management market if National Australia Bank’s ...

Financial planning

The chief executive of van Eyk Research, Mark Thomas, has fired a broadside at the Australian investment research industry, criticising his peers for failing to apply hig...

People & Products

Former BT Financial Group executive Graeme Fowler and accounting specialist David Smith have joined soon-to-be-floated Count subsidiary CountPlus as non-executive directo...

Financial planning

Online information portals could be powerful tools for advisers to engage their clients in the difficult discussion of risk insurance, and two such portals were recently ...

Financial planning

The FPA is calling on current and aspiring CFPs to enter themselves in the Value of Advice Awards for 2010....

Financial planning

The Rule of Law Institute has again revealed that Australia’s financial services regulators do not live up to the same expectations they impose on others....

Editorial

A restructure, joint venture sales and a strong return from general insurance have seen Suncorp significantly lift its profit....

Editorial

Perpetual appears to have moved beyond the gloomy results it achieved during the global financial crisis to report a 140 per cent increase in profit....

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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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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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