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Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has made final stop or-ders on the prospectuses for the The Oil Fields Project 4 and The Great Forests 1999 Pr...

Financial planning

“This issue is a huge sleeper and it makes John Laws look like a bloody Franciscan monk.”...

Funds management

Proposed changes to the All Ordinaries Index will allow better comparisons of fund managers and their claimed styles, according to industry pundits....

Financial planning

“How deeply entrenched are soft dollar commissions in the financial services industry?”...

Financial planning

Despite a brief hiatus, demand for back office services from financial services organisations looks set to boom. Samantha Walker discovers why....

Funds management

Macquarie Investment Management is to open up its private equity fund of funds MAIT (Macquarie Alternative Investment Trust) to retail in-vestors for the first time in ea...

Funds management

Fund managers must have the right people running their outsourcing services if they want to maintain their distribution relationships with financial planners. "Financial...

Financial planning

A cheaper way of reaching rural advisers around Australia has been launched by AM Corporation with its Internet conferencing service. The service, claimed to be a first f...

Financial planning

The Financial Planners and Investment Advisers Association (FPIA) needs to improve its structure if it is to administer a registration scheme for financial advisers, acco...

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Financial planning

A significant number of funds management groups missed the June 30 deadline for lodgement of trustee retirement notices under the Managing Investments Act (MIA), accordin...

Funds management

This is an open letter to all funds managers from a typical adviser who runs a small business. I mean to raise issues that urgently need to be addressed by all sides of o...

Financial planning

In less than a fortnight, the first conference to combines wholesale and retail financial services kicks off in Melbourne. Two of the IFSA conference's keynote speakers s...

Financial planning

Australians are most likely to choose a fund managers based on a recommendation, usually from a financial planner or family member, rather than advertising, a new ASSIRT/...

Financial planning

Australia's managed funds industry is poised to break through the $500 billion for the first time....

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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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