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Financial planning

The concerns raised by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) about the use of hedge funds in superannuation could just as easily be levelled at traditiona...

Financial planning

AXA chief executive officer Les Owen says that despite all the recent bad news the outlook for the Australian wealth management market looks good....

Editorial

Psychology is often the biggest obstacle to consistently successful investing, says Gordon Thoms....

Editorial

Suncorp Metway has recorded a slight profit increase in the six months to December last year, despite a sharp drop in the performance of its wealth management division....

Financial planning

A decline in total assets under management in Australia as well as continuing weak fund inflows is creating a situation Assirt believes could have “severe consequences” f...

Financial planning

It’s currently fashionable to call financial planning ‘life planning’, but Tom Collins argues that is exactly what financial planning has always been....

Financial planning

Perpetual Investments is predicting another year of disappointing returns for investors in both Australian and international equity markets, while listed property could a...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has today revealed it made a $32.8 million payout to a departing senior executive of its Colonial First State funds management arm, at the sam...

Editorial

What will happen to the world’s financial markets if there’s a war? CHARLES BEELAERTS investigates....

Editorial

A damning new report on the hedge fund industry in Australia has found that many products do not constitute hedge funds at all. Authors of the report, MARTIN GOLD and PAU...

Financial planning

The Royal & Sun Alliance owned Tyndall Investment Management group has cast aside the uncertainty pervading the world’s equity markets to top consulting group Intech Fina...

Financial planning

AMP has announced a further 1900 job cuts from its troubled UK Financial Services arm, mostly from the ranks of its financial planners, at the same time as details of chi...

Financial planning

The Assirt group is continuing to push into the research of the burgeoning hedge fund sector, releasing its first ever rating of a single strategy hedge fund manager, K2 ...

Financial planning

AMP has today flagged a possible $1.2 billion writedown of its troubled United Kingdom Financial Services (UKFS) and AMP International businesses....

Financial planning

The latest KPMG Insurance Industry Survey has predicted that 2002 will be a tough year for the life insurance industry, due mainly to weakening equity markets causing inv...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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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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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

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