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Editorial

AUSTRALIAN retail investors have lost faith in US stocks and have started to look elsewhere, placing the US markets under pressure to provide a stable investment ground, ...

Financial planning

A Sydney based financial adviser has been sentenced to 300 hours community service and been handed a 12-month, $1000 good behaviour bond, after being found guilty of acti...

Financial planning

A former AMP adviser has pleaded guilty to 23 charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)....

Financial planning

Choosing the correct time to invest is crucial, but as DOMINIC McCORMICK says, investing when all the indicators are wrong is foolish....

Financial planning

AM Corp has confirmed that it will wind down its troubled Diversified Traded Policies (DTP) Fund over a five year timeframe after a tumultuous nine months in which the gr...

Financial planning

MICRO-CAPS are continuing to out perform the ASX 100, but investors are still running shy of the sector....

Financial planning

Australia’s managed fund industry has become hamstrung in its attempts to gain widespread support for ethical investment funds because of a lack of knowledge about the se...

Financial planning

Over 33,000 investors have accepted the Australian Tax Office’s (ATO) settlement offer over discredited mass marketed tax effective schemes, tax commissioner Michael Carm...

Financial planning

Research house Lonsec has put out a recommendation on the Multiplex Development Trust II after reviewing the property fund....

People & Products

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has continued its crackdown on dishonest investment schemes, after successfully lodging wind up orders with th...

Financial planning

The popular tax schemes of years gone by could see some advisers facing massive legal claims. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....

Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has today extended by three weeks the deadline for investors to accept its settlement offer over mass marketed tax schemes....

Financial planning

ING Australia’s banking subsidiaries, ING Direct, has rolled out its second managed fund product in 12 months....

Editorial

Savvy investors are pushing individually managed accounts (IMAs) into the retail space, possibly at the expense of unit trusts. STEPHEN ROBERTSON reports. ...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has accused the Australian Tax Office (ATO) of discrimination over its decision to exclude financial planners from its settlement...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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

3 weeks ago

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

3 weeks 5 days ago

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

1 month ago

Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

5 days 23 hours ago

Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

1 day 14 hours ago

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 ...

4 weeks 1 day ago