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Editorial

Preventive medicine: protecting client portfolios from market crashes

The financial services industry largely failed to protect its clients through the market decline. A focus on robust market valuation and a willingness to adjust portfolio...

Financial planning

Lending rates for small business under scrutiny

The interest rates being offered to small businesses during a time when other forms of interest are falling will be one focus of a federal inquiry into banking and financ...

Financial planning

Brace for a balance sheet recession

Private equity manager warns of consequences of balance sheet recession and the long haul out....

Editorial

Mortgage Choice posts $8.3 million interim profit

'Noticeable improvement' in housing loan demand....

Financial planning

CBA to acquire $2.5 billion Wizard mortgage portfolio

Bank to pass on 1 per cent interest rate cut to new mortgagees....

Financial planning

CBA launches capital protected investment

Aims to deliver ASX 200 growth....

Financial planning

Consumers demand variable loans

Borrowers concentrate on reducing costs....

Funds management

APN's Euro property group expected to breach contracts

Significant property value declines and a drop in the value of AEZ's hedging contracts lead to breach of financial covenants....

Funds management

Law changes spur property investment plans

Current global environment makes property investing attractive....

Financial planning

S&P reinstates rating on AXA North product

Increase in fees will have little effect on fund performance....

Financial planning

Mortgage origination: consolidation opportunities flourish

Following the US sub-prime mortgage crisis and in tough economic conditions, the Australian financial services industry finds itself entering 2009 in a precarious positio...