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Financial planning

Investment house Tricom Equities has launched a new service specially designed to aid financial planners in managing model portfolios associated with separately managed a...

Financial planning

BT has added a gearing tool to its Wrap platform, prompted by a record 45 per cent growth in its margin lending loan book to $3.5 billion as of June 30, this year....

Financial planning

AMP financial planner Harry Moustakas CFP has won the NSW wealth accumulation category of the Financial Planning Association’s inaugural Value of Advice Awards....

Policy & Regulation

MLC has decided to provide after-tax return results for a selection of its products to help financial advisers give their clients an idea of the amount of money they are ...

Editorial

More and more planners chasing consistent returns are happy to blend indexed and non-indexed product. Why? Because it all comes back to the view that out performance invo...

Financial planning

The executive director of the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners, Peter Johnston, has retracted a number of statements relating to the Challenger Finan...

Superannuation

The chief executive of a specialist self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) administrator has predicted members of these funds will be revisiting the type of property in...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s has awarded boutique fund manager Five Oceans’ first product offering, its international equities fund, a three star rating....

Editorial

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Policy & Regulation

Superannuation has been confirmed as one of the most tax-effective long-term investment options for high-income earners, while Australian shares and Australian listed pro...

Financial planning

Anybody looking to identify the gambling streak that reputedly characterises Australians as a people would be hard pressed to find evidence of it in the margin loans sect...

Financial planning

Mergers and acquisitions played less of a driving role in the sector’s growth this past year than at any time since the product started to take off in 19887, but this mar...

Funds management

The margin loan outfits at Colonial First State, St George and Macquarie Bank are still the best in the country according to researcher Cannex, which has pointed to a lac...

Financial planning

Aurora Funds Management is seeking subscriptions through an Initial Public Offer for a listed buy-write income trust....

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