GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Financial planning

Mark Thomas argues that financial planners must convince their spooked clients that index management and term deposits are the wrong strategy....

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Editorial

As competition in ETFs increases, it is important for financial advisers and investors to know exactly what they are buying and from whom, according to Tom Keenan. ...

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Financial planning

Almost three in five financial advisers are limited in their choice of platforms, and of those advisers, 40 per cent would like access to other platforms in the market....

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Financial planning

New APRA analysis reveals precisely how many funds sought regulatory relief on liquidity grounds....

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Financial planning

A lack of finance access for small businesses may have potentially harmful consequences on the growth of the Australian economy....

Funds management

Lonsec has released its 2010 Australian Property Sector Review, with the Vanguard Property Securities Index Fund the only fund of 19 reviewed to achieve the highest ratin...

Funds management

Hedged global bonds still offer an attractive return for Australian investors, according to PIMCO's head of global product management, David Fisher....

Financial planning

The ATO has provided special assistance to Cairns businesses in the wake of the Storm Financial collapse....

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Financial planning

Standard & Poor's has placed a 'sell' rating on the AXA Wholesale Global Equity Core Fund, as AXA Rosenberg's founder and head of research step down amid controversy over...

Funds management

Emerging markets remain a good news story despite a sharp fall in the HSBC Emerging Markets Index, according to analysts....

Financial planning

QIC will be offering superannuation funds what it calls a dynamic lifestyle approach, adjusting investment strategies throughout a member's life to improve retirement out...

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Editorial

Many of the MySuper proposals are flawed, according to Robert Keavney, including the reduction of disclosure to members and the introduction of the concept of 'optimal' i...

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Editorial

Paul Barrett commends the Future of Financial Advice recommendations but warns that the annual renewal requirement will create more risk for investors....

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Financial planning

Multi-managers feel the increasing sophistication of their investment approach is making it less of a challenge to demonstrate that they can deliver enough active return ...

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Financial planning

Retirees have been given a 50 per cent reduction in the minimum drawdown amounts for account-based, allocated and market-linked pensions for the 2010-11 financial year, w...

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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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increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...

4 weeks ago

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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