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Financial planning

Balmain Trilogy has taken another step in its campaign to gain control of the City Pacific Mortgage Fund, with a vote scheduled in Brisbane for late next month....

Life/Risk

Growth in the life market is more than a trend, it is being driven by demand, writes Jim Minto....

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Life/Risk

Sixty per cent claim their main concern was ensuring that the family mortgage would be paid if the unexpected happened....

Financial planning

Mortgage lender Muslim Community Co-operative Australia is now licensed to set up mortgage funds and property trust schemes in accordance with Islamic law....

Editorial

The current economic climate has put pressure on financial planning practices throughout Australia and around the world....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission yesterday obtained Federal Court orders to wind up the two remaining companies in the failed Victorian property inves...

Financial planning

A new survey has painted a grim picture of the Australian economy in which low interest rates have not succeeded in reducing mortgage stress or consumer negativity....

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Financial planning

Cuts its group office workforce by 7.6 per cent and restructures a number of departments following a reassessment of staffing....

Life/Risk

Getting a client's sum insured right can be the difference between gaining a client and losing one, writes GERARD KERR....

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Financial planning

Financial planners increasingly looking to reverse mortgages as a financial strategy for retiring clients who need access to home equity....

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Financial planning

Plans to expand its eChoice from an online mortgage finance broker to a more diversified financial services platform....

Financial planning

Steadying emerging markets provide profit opportunities while sustained rallies in US and Asian equities may erase losses in market averages, according to Putnam....

Financial planning

The Federal Government has moved to help consumers having trouble with their mortgages by lifting the credit protection threshold to $500,000....

Financial planning

City Pacific revises its half-year guidance on the City Pacific First Mortgage Fund citing continuing uncertainty in markets....

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services has reported a mixed result for the March quarter but has performed better than the market average....

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

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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