PROPERTY

Policy & Regulation

When it comes to business tax reform most of the headlines have been about capital gains tax (CGT) reform, accelerated depreciation and the lower corporate tax proposal....

People & Products

Steve Blanche has departed AC&L to join MLC Adviser Solutions as the national sales manager, protection....

Financial planning

Howard Funds Management’s flagship product, the Howard Mortgage Product, has been awarded ASSIRT’s highest rating....

Financial planning

European investors are becoming increasingly concerned at the high concentration of investment in telecommunication bonds....

Financial planning

New Zealanders appear more ready than ever to lose their money to absurd investment products lured by the promise of high returns according to John Farrell, head of the S...

Financial planning

Fund managers have been facing an uphill battle in getting investors to recognise the attractiveness of annuity products that include growth assets....

Funds management

Rationalisation in the listed property trust market will not stop new players coming into the market, according to Rothschild Australia....

Financial planning

Over the past five years, a lot of the fat has been trimmed from profit margins for banks on home loans. At the same time, profit margins for margin lenders re-main robus...

Policy & Regulation

From time to time, the trust deed of a superannuation fund or other trust may be amended. In some circumstances, the changes to the trust deed may result in a new trust b...

Financial planning

Advance Asset Management (AAM) has set about a major restructure of its distri-bution and investment operations, following the departure of long serving manag-ing directo...

Financial planning

Migrants can be an affluent market for financial planners, but, it seems, also a difficult one which requires much patience and hard work before it pays off. ...

Financial planning

While some financial planners are already capturing younger customers, many more are overlooking a market that is poised to become a major force to be reckoned with. Loui...

Financial planning

The Tyndall name will remain as a significant brand in the Australian financial services market under plans to merge the Royal & SunAlliance (RSA) and Tyndall investment ...

Financial planning

A Western Australia vineyard project that was sold heavily through financial planners has gone into administration....

Funds management

Mercantile Mutual has made its intentions clear that it wants to be a major player in property funds management, launching a $112 million takeover bid for Heine Man-ageme...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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 1 week 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...

3 weeks 1 day ago

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

2 weeks ago

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

3 weeks 1 day ago