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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....
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....
Superannuation
With the marketplace gearing up for over 55’s to implement the Transition to Retirement (TTR) Strategy, financial planners and accountants need to ensure they optimise th...
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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...