FUNDS MANAGEMENT

People & Products

Contango announces launch of new LIC - Contango Income Generator Limited....

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Superannuation

A recent determination by the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal has revealed the ugly consequence of super funds investing in highly illiquid assets....

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Funds management

Proprietary models are the view of investment managers when it comes to looking at the transparency of smart beta ETFs. ...

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Funds management

Large scale asset managers have not added to financial instability but weathered the financial crisis well according to ASIC and IOSCO chair, Greg Medcraft....

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Funds management

Investors need to let go of traditional asset allocation if they are to capture yield they need in retirement, Principal Global Investors believes....

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Superannuation

The States are adding costs to deferred lifetime annuities by imposing ambiguous and uncertain stamp duty rules....

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Superannuation

Australia’s largest industry fund has added its voice to calls to limit super tax concessions to eliminate scope for estate planning....

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Funds management

Active management is sold on the basis of past performance and not bought by investors according to an indices provider executive....

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Life/Risk

Property investors are forecasting that non-residential assets will outperform the equities market over the coming 12 to 24 months, the API reveals....

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Funds management

The number of high net worth clients in Australia, and around the world, has continued to grow along with their appetite for robo-advice despite resistance from wealth ma...

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Funds management

Unsecured creditors of BBY companies may receive distributions of between zero and 24 cents in the dollar should the businesses be liquidated, the administrator reports....

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Funds management

ETFs have boomed as a sector but investors should be cautious about chasing international performance. ...

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Funds management

Errors on white-labelled Macquarie platforms lead to refunds payments to 2300 present and former clients....

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Funds management

PPB Advisory denied it intended to deregister Trio Capital or Astarra Strategic fund, and said claims by Victims of Financial Fraud were “factually incorrect”....

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People & Products

Qualitas appoints former Perennial CEO, Lewis Bearman, as its first external director....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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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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....

2 weeks ago

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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