GEARING

Financial planning

The concerns raised by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) about the use of hedge funds in superannuation could just as easily be levelled at traditiona...

Funds management

Hedge Funds of Australia managing director Spencer Young has hit back at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) over concerns voiced by the regulator last ...

Financial planning

The Perpetual group has expanded its operations with the trustee side of the business launching a new operation while the investment business has rolled out a new geared ...

Funds management

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has warned of concerns it has over the choice of hedge funds as investments....

Editorial

Many property syndicates have such flawed structures they would be completely unacceptable in any other form of managed investment, says Rob Keavney....

Financial planning

The level of outstanding loans relating to margin lending accounts, as well as the number of margin lending clients, have grown dramatically in the past year. PRUE MOODIE...

Financial planning

To gear or not to gear, that is the question. PRUE MOODIE and JOHN WILKINSON went in search of some answers....

Financial planning

THE FORMAL takeover of BT by Westpac will leave the new entity with two margin lending operations....

Financial planning

NEXT Financial will become the first non-institutional group in Australia to roll out individually managed accounts (IMAs) and the second to offer them to financial plann...

Financial planning

Old Stan Pendergast had a stack of fibro down the back past the chook shed, and each time one of his seven children arrived, he picked up a few sheets and added another b...

Life/Risk

Despite their low profile, insurance bonds can offer some real benefits, according to JENNIFER BROOKHOUSE, with investment and tax advantages....

Financial planning

XPLAN Technology has launched a full suite of financial planning tools based entirely on the Internet, making it the second group to do so after IWL placed part of its ma...

Editorial

Hedge funds have done well in terms of both performance and distribution, but they are yet to be universally accepted on master trust menus. FIONA MOORE reports....

Life/Risk

American International Assurance (Australia) (AIA) launched Women’s SmartCover, a female crisis assistance benefit, this month. This introduction of a targeted women’s pr...

Financial planning

Gearing has become a little too popular recently for DOMINIC McCORMICK, who says the reasons for its growth are not always in the interests of the client....

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