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Financial planning

The picture for gold stocks is brighter than it’s been for some time, but investors, it seems, are just not seeing it....

Funds management

APN Funds Management is to list its Property for Income Fund on the Austock exempt market this month following the poaching of a number of key Colonial First State proper...

Financial planning

Do you recommend margin lending products?...

Financial planning

Last month, Australia’s investment watchdog fired out a missive to investors alerting them to the dangers of the margin lending market. Samantha Walker asked the in-dustr...

Financial planning

The booming margin lending market may be attracting heat from regulators around the world, but Ralph inspired tax changes are set to keep the flame burning. Jason Spits ...

Financial planning

The main focus for advisers over the coming months should not be the GST but rather the changes which will come into effect as part of the Ralph Review....

Financial planning

Table: The All Ords at the end of 2000 Macquarie Bank’s Greg Matthews 3100 Ord Minnett’s David Cassidy 3200 BT Funds Management’s Michael Coop 3300 JB Were’s Jus...

Funds management

The Australian Exempt Property Market will shortly announce new managers joining, according to MCS Property’s Julius Colman....

Financial planning

While some financial planners are already capturing younger customers, many more are overlooking a market that is poised to become a major force to be reckoned with. Loui...

Financial planning

In April the Federal Government released a draft to industry of its bill changing the investment standards for superannuation funds (see <I>Money Management</I> May 13). ...

Financial planning

The Federal Government has recently introduced a bill into parliament which could have wide ranging effects on self managed superannuation funds. Nick In-gram takes a loo...

Financial planning

Scullers has done it again!...

Editorial

Profits for margin lending providers are artificially high, according to an industry figure....

Financial planning

It is a sort of chicken and egg situation. One of the reasons behind the current property boom is the cheap money available. Yet mortgage lenders are becoming concerned a...

Financial planning

Margin lending clients can open up a whole new demographic market for advisers, according to Macquarie Bank Equities Lending associate di-rector, Mary Thompson. Thompson,...

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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 ...

2 months ago

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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