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Financial planning

ASIC has obtained interim Federal Court orders restraining a Melbourne man and six companies associated with an alleged unregistered managed investment scheme....

Financial planning

The degree to which the Federal Government’s ‘simpler super’ has driven business into financial planning practices has been revealed by the latest AMP Capital Investors a...

Editorial

Perpetual chairman Robert Savage has forecast an 18 per cent increase in operating profit after tax for the company in 2007, based on the $122.4 million it achieved last ...

People & Products

Australian Capital Reserve Group (ACR) became the third financial services organisation offering investments in property development in recent times to strike financial t...

Editorial

Projections of a flood of people selling out of direct property to make a $1 million one-off tax-advantaged cash contribution to super by June 30, this year, do not appea...

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Financial planning

For a property adviser, the most conservative starting place to demonstrate the benefits of long-term direct residential property investment is material provided by a rep...

Editorial

For investors looking for the right combination of property exposure, liquidity and diversification, ‘hybrid’ property funds are emerging as a winning strategy, writes MA...

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Funds management

Allocations toward global listed property are continuing to increase within retail investment portfolios in Australia and internationally, according to Colonial First Sta...

Financial planning

Australian superannuation funds are now well on their way to generating a further round of double digit returns for members, according to the latest data released by Sydn...

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Funds management

MLC has made its global property strategy more readily accessible to investors with the introduction of a global property sector fund....

Financial planning

For investors, advisers and super funds alike, the changes introduced into Parliament in December 2006 represented the biggest, and possibly the most positive shift in sa...

Financial planning

LaSalle Investment Management client services Australia director David Quirk believes a key component separating the fund manager from its competition in global property ...

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Financial planning

A Refusing to be pigeonholed into one management style, Principal Global Investors instead labels itself an opportunistic fund manager....

Superannuation

The topic of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) seems to be replacing investment property conversation at more and more baby boomers’ weekend barbecues....

Funds management

A Brisbane property promoter has been handed a two and a half year jail sentence after pleading guilty to six charges of dishonest business dealings....

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