GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Financial planning

AMP's Steve Helmich explains what it means to be a professional financial planner and the value of professionalism for planners and their clients....

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Financial planning

Australian investors remain pessimistic about the prospect of full market recovery, with their concern levels rising while return expectations are decreasing....

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Financial planning

Specialist investment manager Omega Global Investors has produced new research supporting its global bond fund product....

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Editorial

Select Asset Management's Dominic McCormick suspects the recent decline in currency volatility is the calm before a much bigger storm – with significant implications for ...

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Financial planning

Funds manager Vanguard Investments has announced that it intends publishing quarterly portfolio holdings for all of its funds from this month onwards....

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Financial planning

Australian investors may have built up a so-called "wall of cash" as they cling to safety in volatile times, but new research conducted by Wealth Insights suggests planne...

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Financial planning

Financial services training provider RG 146 entered administration in August but is trying to trade out of trouble....

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Financial planning

A social media platform aimed at raising awareness about climate risk and 'short-termism' in the global financial system was launched over the weekend in New York....

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Superannuation

Superannuation reforms should centre around achieving adequate retirement savings for the majority of Australians and not short-term budget objectives, according to ASFA ...

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Funds management

Investor sentiment has hit its highest level in 15 months, though it remains in negative territory, according to CoreData's quarterly Investor Sentiment Index....

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Superannuation

New data released by AMP Limited has confirmed the adverse impact of the Federal Government having lowered superannuation concessional contribution caps....

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Financial planning

The prolonged lull in investments markets, coupled with the pressure to comply with the new regulatory regime, is taking its toll on some planners' mental health....

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Funds management

The platform market suffered yet another fall over the last year, with net fund flows reaching their lowest levels in 10 years....

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Editorial

With Baby Boomers starting to enter retirement, there is a growing realisation that retirement incomes products are insufficient and in need of an overhaul....

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Financial planning

A review of ASIC's GFC short-selling ban has identified the benefits and the costs - and the fact the regulator would likely do it again....

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...

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Insignia Financial has made four appointments, including three who have joined from TAL, to lead strategy and innovation in its retirement solutions for the MLC brand....

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A former Brisbane financial adviser has been charged with 26 counts of dishonest conduct regarding a failure to disclose he would receive substantial commission payments ...

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Pinnacle Investment Management has announced it will acquire strategic interests in two international fund managers for $142 million....

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