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Funds management

Despite consumer concerns over interest rates, the proportion of investors planning to purchase direct property in the next 12 months has dropped only slightly from 34.8 ...

Financial planning

The Senior Australian Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) was formed early last year in order to set voluntary codes of conduct for its member organisations – ...

Financial planning

Increasing domestic consumption, export demand from China and the United States, and company profits are expected to fuel an already burgeoning Japanese economy according...

Editorial

BT Financial Group coined 2005 the “year of the disconnect”, because of the various anomalies occurring in the developed versus underdeveloped share markets and economies...

Policy & Regulation

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has again hit back at calls to abolish the 15 per cent superannuation contributions tax, this time claiming tax rates applying to retirem...

Policy & Regulation

Hopes that the superannuation contributions tax will be scrapped in the next budget have been dampened, with Federal Treasurer Peter Costello today stating a removal of t...

Financial planning

Asgard Wealth Solutions has decided to make two of its high interest yielding products available to investors using the Asgard platform in an effort to attract a greater ...

Financial planning

The upgrading of resource stocks will determine the performance of the Australian stock market in 2006, according to Portfolio Partners head of equities Glen Hart....

Financial planning

The outlook for the financial services industry in 2006 is, as the French would say, plus ça change — the more it changes, the more it is the same....

Financial planning

A survey conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has shown new company floats have produced outstanding returns for investors over the past 11 months, with initial publ...

Editorial

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Funds management

The recent stellar performance of commodity markets has prompted the separate release of two capital guaranteed commodity products for retail investors by Macquarie Portf...

Financial planning

Managed funds continue to be the preferred investment option for Australians, according to a new survey of 4,500 investors....

Financial planning

With the value of the reverse mortgage market tipped to skyrocket to be worth $7 billion, an industry association has warned investors to beware of substandard products a...

Financial planning

Australian consumers’ increasing appetite for debt has prompted investment banking giant Macquarie Bank to release a booklet to help financial planners enable their clien...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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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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