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Financial planning

New Canstar research confirms the popularity of term deposits and recognises competition being provided by key retail master trusts....

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Financial planning

Financial planners and their clients have to supplant platform providers and fund managers as the price setters in the advice equation, according to Colonial First State ...

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People & Products

Fidelity Worldwide Investment has added to its Australian team with the appointment of Andrew Mellor as associate director consultant relationships....

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Editorial

Money Management’s Top 100 Dealer Group data has underscored the re-emergence of institutions as the dominant force in Australian financial planning....

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Editorial

The increasing acceptance of managed futures is welcome news, but Dominic McCormick believes retail investors should know what to expect....

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Top 100

Many significant players in the dealer group sector have reduced their financial planner numbers, though the industry remains optimistic....

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Top 100

Consolidation is changing the face of the financial planning dealer group sector before our eyes, while small-to-medium players continue to struggle....

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Funds management

SFG Australia launches new managed discretionary account products into allied groups - Shadforth, Outlook and Western Pacific....

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Funds management

There was little change for the masterfunds sector over the year to March 2012, down by just 0.3 per cent, or $1.4 billion, to $433.1 billion....

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Editorial

Bela Moore and Andrew Tsanadis find some pockets of the financial services industry are hiring while others have brought their recruitment activities to a halt....

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Terminally ill clients who attempt to roll over their superannuation could end up with a big tax bill, warns OnePath technical services manager Scott Quinn....

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Funds management

The top 100 global alternative investment managers now manage in excess of $3 trillion, with 20 Australian managers making the list in Towers Watson's Global Alternatives...

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Funds management

Standard & Poor's half-yearly fixed interest peer review said active managers continued to struggle in 2012 as issues in peripheral Europe showed no signs of abating....

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Superannuation

The AIST will be lodging a further submission with the Productivity Commission reinforcing that default superannuation funds must be 'fit for purpose'....

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Superannuation

A draft amendment to the MySuper legislation appears aimed at entrenching some of the existing default superannuation fund regime....

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