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Funds management

Hedge fund managers have been warned they will come under increasing scrutiny from the corporate regulator, which has expressed concern that the complexity of some funds ...

Financial planning

Proposed changes that could shorten the length of disclosure documents and bring much needed relief from burdensome Statement of Advice (SOA) requirements have been endor...

Financial planning

Your legal obligations under super choice...

Superannuation

Any adviser unclear over the extent to which super choice will raise the bar on their duty of care towards clients need only look to the recent experience of their collea...

Financial planning

Aren’t you tired of hearing about holistic, lifestyle planning? I am. Not that the concept is wrong, it’s just an impossibly tall order....

Financial planning

Nothing much has changed on Money Management’s list of Top 50 Distributors during the space of the last 12 months....

Financial planning

The ASX has been chastised for continuing weaknesses in its supervision of the warrants market and disclosure provisions in the listing rules, in a generally upbeat asses...

Financial planning

The secretary of the ACTU, Greg Combet has expressed concern that superannuation funds are too often being placed under pressure to achieve good short-term returns at the...

Financial planning

Differences in disclosure documents between major superannuation providers currently permitted by regulators and industry associations are making it too hard for investor...

Editorial

With the recent announcement of new player Virgin Super came a flurry of reaction from the Australian industry. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has relaxed the rules relating to licensing, conduct and disclosure requirements for superannuation calculators....

Financial planning

Van Eyk and property research group, Managed Investment Assessments have released the first report completed under a strategic alliance formed by the companies in April t...

Financial planning

Imagine what would happen if the government allowed major pharmaceutical companies to set up general practitioner practices and pay GPs trail commissions on they drugs th...

Funds management

The Financial Planning Association is sticking to its position that real estate agents should be regulated by a separate regime that picks up the best elements of Financi...

Financial planning

Following the Senate’s rejection of the Bill to abolish the superannuation surcharge on Wednesday, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has called for sup...

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