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Financial planning

A former director of the Pegasus Leveraged Options Group, Craig John McKim, has been banned from being involved in the management of a company for 30 years....

Financial planning

Investors continue to be sceptical about the quality of financial planning advice and that vested interests are being promoted by the advisory market ahead of the needs o...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank will be launching a new lending option fund aimed at the retail market....

Financial planning

Tower Managed Funds has launched its first tax-effective Australian domiciled managed fund in New Zealand and is promising more will follow....

Financial planning

Australian agribusiness investment manager Timbercorp is allowing investors to diversify into three different plantation projects: eucalyptus, olives and almonds via a ne...

Funds management

Last year hedge funds and ethical funds were regarded as A-list investments....

Funds management

>AMP head of strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver says while emerging markets are generally out of investor favour, the asset class is geared to the global economy a...

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Managed Investments Association (AMIA) is calling on investors caught up in the controversy over mass marketed tax schemes to consider rejecting the Austra...

Financial planning

Investors in Australian Plantation Timber’s managed investment schemes will still get their tax deductions now that the company has been rescued by Zurich Capital Markets...

Financial planning

A Tasmanian solicitors’ mortgage scheme has been pulled up by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) which has appointed a liquidator to oversee the ...

Financial planning

Colonial First State Investments has introduced a nil-entry-fee pricing structure for its investment products, giving investors the option to pay no up front application ...

Financial planning

Plans to convert investor’s wine scheme units into listed shares have been abandoned after strong opposition from the schemes investors around the country....

Financial planning

Investors are bullish about increasing their exposure to the Australian sharemarket, despite the low-growth conditions affecting economies and share markets world wide, a...

Financial planning

The Australian managed fund industry is bracing itself for the repercussions of the terrorist attacks in the US as investors respond to the crisis by looking for safe hav...

Financial planning

It is a phrase that will no doubt end up lost in the cluttered, oversized pile of clichés – that Australian investors are Internet savvy. However, regardless of its clich...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 1 day ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

1 week 6 days ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

3 weeks ago