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Financial planning

When the announcement came last week that interest rates would not rise, what should have been good news for home owners was stained by a less than subtle threat by the R...

Financial planning

An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been closed off by an interim order of the Federal Court....

Financial planning

Listed planning business DKN Financial Group says its part acquisition of financial planning firm Goldsborough Financial Services for $2.35 million last Friday maintains ...

Financial planning

Financial planners and retail investors are supporting a wider range of capital market vehicles than ever, but are becoming more discerning in doing so, according to KPMG...

Financial planning

Most new property trusts in the next 12 months would feature overseas property as the famine of good quality Australian properties coming to market continued, a prominent...

Financial planning

Members of superannuation funds that still use a credit rating approach to allocate investment earnings could suffer significant financial losses if they switch funds....

Financial planning

It’s time again to return to the topic of gold. It comes at an interesting time when (at least at the time of writing) gold was confounding many critics by rising in pric...

Editorial

Money Management spoke to the stars of the international equities category of this year’s Fund Manager of the Year Awards about their views on investing in the global mar...

Financial planning

Swiss-based asset manager Julius Baer Investments is taking its first steps into the Australian market with the launch of a absolute return bond fund for local investors....

Editorial

Ray Griffin shows hypothetically how financial services businesses are at risk of litigation if they don’t exercise their correct duty of care when advising in property i...

Editorial

John Gall (‘Opportunity in emerging markets’, MM, May 13, 2004, p18) was correct to criticise Australian investment managers for ignoring the opportunities available in e...

Financial planning

Perennial Investment Partners is the winner of the Australian fixed interest category of the Money Management Fund Manager of the Year Awards. This category has been incl...

Financial planning

International equities, across all geographical locations, will be the big performers in 2005 according to Perpetual’s Brigette Leckie, who said that some world markets a...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank will follow AMP into offering a capital-guaranteed exposure to Chinese equities, through the Macquarie Reflexion Trusts to open in June....

Financial planning

Balanced funds posted their first month of negative returns in March since July last year, on the back of weaker share markets....

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