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Financial planning

Despite a strong rebound this year for the Australian financial services sector, it appears that the industry's employment outlook is not so rosy for the coming year, acc...

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Editorial

Following the recent market rally, Dr Ron Bewley asks the question: is the Australian share market due for a correction?...

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Financial planning

A recent Financial Ombudsman Service determination has revealed the risks facing financial planners considering lifting their involvement in residential property investme...

Editorial

New legislation governing how superannuation fund trustees may borrow under a limited recourse borrowing arrangement has left a number of questions unanswered, says Bryce...

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Superannuation

The Cooper Review panel may have suggested otherwise, but Mike Taylor writes that the exponential growth in the number of self-managed superannuation funds and the invest...

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Financial planning

Listed property has recovered since the massive lows of the global financial crisis, but there are plenty of challenges ahead for the industry, particularly investor sent...

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Funds management

UBS and MLC’s property securities funds have been placed ‘on hold’ by Standard & Poor’s Fund Services following key staff resignations....

Funds management

Charter Hall is looking forward to a better outlook for property investing, considering itself well placed for improving investor sentiment....

Superannuation

Accountancy firm Chan & Naylor has called for an end to what it calls an arbitrary maximum limit of four members to each SMSF....

Financial planning

MLC’s announcement that it will terminate an AREIT managed by Challenger and increase its maximum GREIT holding will not result in a change of rating from Standard ...

Funds management

ING Group is undertaking an evaluation of the position of the global ING Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) business amid market concerns about the future direction...

Financial planning

New Towers Watson research has revealed Macquarie Group as the dominant player in terms of alternatives management for pension funds....

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Financial planning

Australia's population of high-net-worth individuals has risen by 34.4 per cent to 173,600, according to Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and Capgemini’s latest Wor...

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Financial planning

Global institutional investors expect to recommit to alternative investments over the next two to three years....

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Editorial

With the financial crisis effectively over, Benjamin Levy examines the state of the direct property market and looks at the role it should play for investors in the futur...

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