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Financial planning
Anybody looking to identify the gambling streak that reputedly characterises Australians as a people would be hard pressed to find evidence of it in the margin loans sect...
Financial planning
Mergers and acquisitions played less of a driving role in the sector’s growth this past year than at any time since the product started to take off in 19887, but this mar...
Funds management
The margin loan outfits at Colonial First State, St George and Macquarie Bank are still the best in the country according to researcher Cannex, which has pointed to a lac...
Financial planning
Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has sold its 76 per cent stake in platform provider Oasis Asset Management to ING Australia....
People & Products
The head of St George Private Bank Nick Kalikajaros has been replaced by head of St George margin lending Andrew Black....
Editorial
Listed online share trading facility E*Trade has ridden recent outstanding stock market performance to post an $8.83 million profit, and split its advisory support busine...
Financial planning
St George’s wealth management business contributed almost 20 per cent more to the group’s profit before tax this year than in 2004, on the back of strong investment marke...
Financial planning
There are very few genuinely new products in financial services. Usually they are variations on an existing theme, and structured products fall very much into this catego...
Funds management
Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) will offer margin lending for its hedge fund-of-funds after striking a deal with Tricom Equities with the latter to co-distribute the pro...
Financial planning
Retail investor interest in protected margin loans has now surpassed $1 billion according to the Reserve Bank of Australia....
Editorial
The announcement of a healthy 15.6 per cent growth in funds under administration for St George-owned Sealcorp over the past twelve months today has significantly boosted ...
Financial planning
The jury may be out on the wisdom of putting clients into margin lending – but all the signs say that this will be one product that will see increasing demand in coming m...
Financial planning
Challenger International and CPH Investment will split into life and non-life divisions following a merging of the two groups in July, an Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) ...
Financial planning
Margin lending is not the only way to get into gearing. Philip McLean looks at instalments as an alternative....
Financial planning
Despite the poor performance and volatility of the markets Cameron Walshe adviser Wayne Lear says gearing is still a viable proposition....
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Podcast
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...