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Fund managers in New Zealand are being criticised for their decision to close many of their funds following the terrorist attacks in the United States earlier this month....

Financial planning

The husband and wife directors of a Gold Coast-based agri-business investment company have been forced to repay investors more than $100,000, after an olive scheme failed...

Financial planning

The growth of investing globally is being accompanied by an increase in information, much of it overwhelming, which is the result of more stringent disclosure. According ...

Financial planning

The Australian Tax Office has admitted it acted too late in disallowing a number of tax schemes according to the Commissioner of Taxation Michael Carmody....

Superannuation

E*Trade Australia has formed an alliance with SuperEasy to offer investors a do-it-yourself superannuation fund online....

Funds management

Exchange traded funds are about to make their debut in South Korea, while in Japan, investors will be offered a handful more ETFs made available by Barclays and State Str...

Financial planning

Investment sentiment has suffered its largest drop since a slump in October 1994 to February 1995....

Financial planning

Armed with a preliminary discussion paper from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and some overseas research, it is timely to consider the implications of the ASX’s tent...

Financial planning

Tyndall Investment Management has made an enforced undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) over unit pricing errors....

Financial planning

Cold calling is finding a new lease of life as offshore groups seek investors to part with their cash. Yet many of these are either not licensed to operate or even on the...

Financial planning

Advisers are flocking to international shares in record numbers, according to research by Perpetual Investments....

Financial planning

The Australian Managed Investment Association (AMIA) has called for Australian Tax Office (ATO) commissioner Michael Carmody’s resignation in light of growing anger over ...

Financial planning

The ASX is playing down reports that it is proposing to make thousands of managed funds available directly to investors....

Financial planning

Investors should consider dipping their toes back in the risky tech and emerging markets stocks, according to Fiducian Portfolio Services managing director Indy Singh....

Financial planning

As the shaky dot.coms and booming biotech stocks of last year become just a painful memory investors are questioning the best method to invest in equities. Kate Kachor co...

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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...

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

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

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