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Editorial

Fixed interest has an important place when building a diversified portfolio, and the recent rise in new high yielding investment vehicles, such as hybrids and structured ...

Financial planning

Advance Asset Management has Australia’s most talked about fund manager all to itself, having signed Michael Trigaboff’s highly successful MIR to an exclusive retail dist...

Financial planning

With conflicts of interest in the spotlight, receiving payment for services is no simple matter. Zoe Fielding asked Financial Planning Association director Sarah Brennan ...

Financial planning

If anyone had any doubt about how conflicts of interest, whether real or perceived, are impacting on the image of financial planners, then they only had to listen to a sp...

Financial planning

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Financial planning

For Australia’s biggest financial planning dealer groups, managing conflicts is all about ensuring advisers have adequate choice....

Financial planning

Wholesale wrap platform Avanteos has signed a deal with Colonial First State to access its FirstChoice wholesale multi-manager funds....

Funds management

A strong wealth management performance in Australia and New Zealand helped lift AXA’s net profit for the half-year to June 30 by 36 per cent to $246 million....

Funds management

Indecision by financial planners over how to allocate property to client portfolios under current market conditions was a key motivator for the launch of AMP Capital Inve...

Editorial

Booming investment markets and a decision to not pay almost $1 million for professional indemnity cover have helped Barry Lambert’s Count Financial to record a $12.3 mill...

Editorial

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Financial planning

Just weeks after it lost two of its key executives to rival Financial Wisdom, IOOF-owned dealer group Winchombe Carson has sought to bolster its executive team....

Financial planning

The introduction of the Financial Services Reform Act has had a major impact on practice profitability – especially for smaller businesses that do not have the scale to e...

Financial planning

While platform operators talk about scale driving cost efficiencies, critics argue that there has been very little difference in the cost structure for end investors over...

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