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Financial planning

Investec Australia rolls out lending offering to independent financial advisers....

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Editorial

Equity income funds may not live up to their hype, writes Morningstar's Kathryn Young. ...

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Financial planning

Sinodinos confirms Government’s intentions and timetable on FOFA changes along with moratorium on major change during Financial Systems Review....

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Editorial

Although the rest of the world has moved heavily into index funds in recent years, Australians and Kiwis have to a degree maintained their love affair with an active mana...

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Life/Risk

Financial advisers still face some high hurdles in trying to match clients’ risk insurance needs with solutions but there are ways of overcoming these challenges, writes ...

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Financial planning

Investors belonging to particular age groups are more satisfied with their financial planners than others....

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Financial planning

Financial advisers are often frustrated with lack of return on investment on their social media effort, according to head of i-Impact Group Claudio Pannunzio....

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Financial planning

Social media has been heralded as the next big thing for some time now, but to make it work in their industry planners need to approach the medium differently, writes And...

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Editorial

As the shadow of the Global Financial Crisis finally passes, the popular ‘safety in cash’ philosophy seems to have departed too. But with an ageing population and the mem...

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Editorial

This may become the Asian century but the wealth management sectors of each Asian country behave differently and have varying products, processes and problems that requir...

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Financial planning

AltaVista launches upgraded version of Portfolio Builder aimed at allowing financial advisers to blend their own ETF portfolios....

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Funds management

The perception that hedge funds are too risky to add value to the retail space is ill-founded, according to a fund manager. ...

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Financial planning

Financial advice has remained the major issue in almost all areas of investment-related complaints filed with the Financial Ombudsman Service. ...

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Superannuation

Corporate super specialists have been the most negatively affected by the Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms due largely to a misunderstanding about the services t...

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Financial planning

AFA claims FOS ground rules provide inherent imbalance against advisers....

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