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The regulator should work to extend the scope of its financial literacy strategy to include an appropriate focus on retirement funding, particularly in relation to senior...
Editorial
As interest rates fall, making cash and term deposits less attractive to investors, there’s an increased level of interest in property. However, a stampede back into the ...
Money Choice director Matthew George had his PIPA membership suspended days after the regulator banned him from the industry and cancelled his firm’s credit licence....
Superannuation
SMSF Academy's Aaron Dunn looks at a related party undertaking improvements to a property at no cost, and explains whether increases in the property value constituted a c...
Funds management
Investors opting for negatively geared direct property are taking a large position on the likely outcome of a single investment despite the risks and up-front losses inhe...
Funds management
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) proposes a merger of its two property funds before one of them reaches termination in June 2014....
Financial planning
Mortgage Choice spokesperson Belinda Williamson has suggested small pockets of declining interest in fixed rates may be a sign of increasing consumer confidence. ...
Financial planning
SEQUAL has launched an updated version of its reverse mortgage education program that takes into account the broader seniors home equity release market....
Funds management
Financial planners should consider specialising in property investment to take advantage of current market forces, according to Property Investment Professionals Associat...
Superannuation
SMSFs may be booming - but the unwary can also find themselves within the sights of a small number of dodgy property advisers and mortgage brokers, writes Damon Taylor. ...
Financial planning
Now that client sentiment is changing for the better, advisers have a real opportunity to show off their portfolio construction skills, according to Damen Purcell, head o...
People & Products
Property Funds Association of Australia (PFA) has appointed Centuria Property Funds chief executive Jason Huljich as its new president....
Financial planning
BGL enters into arrangement with RP Data to provide automated property data to SMSFs. ...
Policy & Regulation
Advisers servicing former or current non-residents should be mindful of the proposed changes to capital gains tax, according to Hall & Wilcox Lawyers....
Editorial
Coaxing clients back into property post-GFC may not be as hard as some imagine, so long as you get the balance right, writes Damian Fitzpatrick. ...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...