FINANCIAL MARKETS

Funds management

Australia's exchange-traded fund (ETF) market is up to proposed international standards, according to an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) report....

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Editorial

Can an improving United States offset the problems in Europe? Matt Sherwood writes....

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Financial planning

ASIC has banned a former Stonebridge Securities Limited broker from providing financial services for three years....

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Financial planning

For financial advisers, the need to be able to assess their clients’ risk is assuming far greater importance, according to Gabriel Carey....

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Superannuation

Aaron Dunn provides five SMSF suggestions that could be used to attract new business in 2012....

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People & Products

Soon-to-retire QIC chief Doug McTaggart has been appointed to the Suncorp board....

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People & Products

To support the growth of its client base, Zenith Investment Partners has appointed Quan Nguyen as an investment analyst and Keira-Louise Heasly as a client and sales admi...

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Editorial

Julian Morrison explains why emotional comfort will lose money for investors....

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Financial planning

Wholesale banking and MLC and NAB Wealth have helped boost unaudited cash earnings to $1.4 billion for NAB in the first quarter of the 2012 financial year....

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Financial planning

Risk-focused financial advisers remain optimistic about the outlook for themselves and their practices despite the changes facing the industry, according to a Zurich Fina...

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Financial planning

Wholesale banking and MLC and NAB Wealth have helped boost unaudited cash earnings to $1.4 billion for NAB in the first quarter of the 2012 financial year....

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Financial planning

BlackRock Australia has unveiled the BlackRock Global Screened Government Bond Fund, which aims to mitigate the risk associated with US and European sovereign debt....

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Editorial

Dissatisfaction with the performance of traditional managed funds and the resulting criticism may see the rise of multi-asset solutions, according to Dominic McCormick....

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Financial planning

Equity investors should focus on high-quality and defensive stocks in the next 12 months, as the Eurozone crisis enters what might be its final stage, according to global...

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Editorial

There is a striking similarity between what debt-ridden European countries are going through now and what some Latin American countries were going through more than a dec...

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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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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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One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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