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Financial planning

The Financial Services Reform Bill currently before parliament sets out to provide a consistent and comprehensive regulatory framework for our industry. Tom Collins recko...

Editorial

I must readily concede a key point made in the responses to my article on hedge funds (Money Management, May 24). The article dealt with only certain types of funds and c...

Funds management

The Deutsche owned Paladin Property Securities has been recognised for its performance in the property investment market with an award of best overall fund by Property In...

Financial planning

Signs of a bull and bear market emerged in May when both Australian shares and listed property were the top performing asset classes for the month....

Editorial

Most advisers promise ongoing service at their initial meetings with clients. However, as Rob Keavney points out, a large number fail to deliver on that promise....

Financial planning

Australian Unity is shrugging off the loss of its NSW state manager, a BDM in Queensland and its well-respected property expert, Paul Noonan, who was responsible for prop...

Financial planning

Deutsche Asset Management has restructured its executive team in an effort to shore up operations of its divisions throughout Asia....

Superannuation

Divorce will be the next big areas to impact on superannuation, according to Australian Super Nominees managing director Ben Smythe....

Life/Risk

In two separate and unrelated announcements, the Australian Securities and Invesments Commission (ASIC) has made rulings against two insurance agents....

Financial planning

International equity funds continue to top the inflow charts for the March quarter, despite international funds suffering big losses for the first three months of the yea...

Editorial

Macquarie’s overall profits of $242 million in the year to March 31 announced today included a loss of around 3 per cent made by its fledgling financial services group (F...

Editorial

As the push into defensive assets continues while markets head south, neglected asset classes continue to attract more of the spotlight. However Rob Keavney argues not al...

Financial planning

It is important that financial planners and their clients research the products or shares they are negatively gearing before signing on the dotted line....

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Financial planning

The founding members of the Evensky Group are dissolving their partnership only weeks before financing they sought for part of a US$45 million financial planning empire i...

Financial planning

A major shakeup of the Commonwealth Bank group in New Zealand sees Sovereign taking over the marketing of Colonial First State Investment's (CFSI) retail funds, with the ...

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