REAL ESTATE

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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Editorial

The stock markets and finance sector generally are talking the talk and walking the walk of success, but should investors be popping the cork? Martin Conlon finds out....

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Financial planning

Fewer Australians appear prepared to direct their money towards investment properties, according to new data released by real estate company Ray White Group....

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Superannuation

David Shirlow from Macquarie Adviser Services brings you up to date with new developments regarding the way SMSF trustees can structure insurance....

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Superannuation

ASIC has obtained orders appointing liquidators to MOGS Pty Ltd, which is associated with two Queensland-based self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) companies....

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Funds management

Income-producing investment products are returning almost 3 per cent less per annum than what is currently anticipated by Australian investors, according to new figures f...

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Policy & Regulation

Some measures within ASIC’s guidance on conflicted remuneration appear to be excessive, according to Tria Investment Partners managing director Andrew Baker....

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Superannuation

Mike Taylor writes that recent actions on the part of both ASIC and APRA suggest that the SMSF sector has become too large for any of the regulators to ignore....

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that recent actions on the part of both ASIC and APRA suggest that the SMSF sector has become too large for any of the regulators to ignore....

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Funds management

New data from Towers Watson has found that its clients have increased their allocation to hedge fund and private market strategies by 70 per cent since 2010, finishing th...

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Funds management

According to Towers Watson, fund managers’ return expectations for US and Australian equity markets are at their lowest since 2008....

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Editorial

Some of the key assumptions about share market investing are deeply flawed and merit robust re-examination, writes Schroders’ Martin Conlon....

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Financial planning

LaSalle Investment Management has added to the property portfolio within its LaSalle Australia Core Plus Fund....

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Financial planning

Despite signs that markets are recovering, there is still more money sitting in cash than there is in the total capitalisation of the ASX, according to Zenith investment ...

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Editorial

While financial planners accept the reasons they are required to hold Professional Indemnity insurance, there are signs the system needs a review....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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