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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought to clarify the position of employers and organisations with respect to talking with employees about the ne...

Financial planning

In a pre-choice attempt to attract do-it-yourself (DIY) superannuation investors, ING has halved minimum investment amounts and cut management expense ratios (MERs) for i...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sent another strong signal that it plans to take a hands-on role to police the superannuation industry in the lea...

Financial planning

Today’s risk advisers are having a tough time replacing themselves. There are no hard figures to prove numbers are dwindling, but most in the industry accept there is a p...

Financial planning

According to Alliance Bernstein’s Kevin Boreen, senior vice president and senior portfolio manager for global value equities, a consistent value philosophy has resulted i...

Financial planning

Skandia may be one of the newer players in Australian financial services, having only opened for business in 2001, but the firm does come with extensive experience....

Financial planning

Managed funds are finding increasing favour with Australian households as a diversification strategy, according to the latest ING Melbourne Institute Household Savings an...

Financial planning

Fake websites set up by phoney international regulators are duping Australian investors into buying shares from dodgy offshore stockbrokers....

Financial planning

A Tasmanian financial planner has become the first scalp in the corporate watchdog’s new super switching campaign, after not giving his clients statements of advice....

Financial planning

Reports of the property market’s death have been greatly exaggerated, according to a new survey showing a 14.7 per cent rise in mortgage sales across Australia during Mar...

Financial planning

Van Eyk Three Pillars, the listed quantitative investor in Australian equities, has shared its high returns with investors by paying a special dividend....

Financial planning

A wealth creation scheme that claims to be able to generate returns of at least 2 per cent every trading day is being investigated by the Australian Securities and Invest...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has opted to restructure its regulatory team rather than appoint a direct replacement for outgoing executive director...

Financial planning

Hundreds of financial planning practices could incur huge fines or lose the right to operate their businesses if they fail to produce overdue 2004 annual accounts and aud...

Financial planning

APN Funds Management has secured platform specialist John Hyslop as its new national sales and distribution manager....

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