REAL ESTATE

Funds management

The Deutsche owned Paladin Property Securities has been recognised for its performance in the property investment market with an award of best overall fund by Property In...

Financial planning

The recent spate of new faces at BT Funds Management is the current phase in what has been an active revolving door over the past 12 months....

Financial planning

With the October deadline for unregulated mortgage investment schemes fast approaching, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) says there are still $2...

Financial planning

Mortgage broking wholesaler Australian Finance Group (AFG) is considering listing on the Australian Stock Exchange to capitalise on the explosive growth in the mortgage b...

Financial planning

BT Funds Management’s chief investment officer Andre Morony has announced his departure of the group, and will be replaced by former head of real estate Gary Symons....

Funds management

Australian investors have hit a conservative patch, shunning shares and property and favouring bank deposits. ...

Financial planning

In 1992, the word “Internet” didn’t even rate a mention in most dictionaries. In 2000, over 25 per cent of Australians are online and the percentage is rapidly growing. ...

Financial planning

Australia’s financial advice industry is underpinned by licensing arrangements enforced and administered by the ever shrinking resources of our investment watchdog. Tom C...

Funds management

BT Funds Management is to merge the BT Property Trust and BT Office Trust to create Austra-lia's biggest office-specific property trust, with total assets of $1.5 billion...

Financial planning

Newly elected national president of the Securities Institute Michael Willis has lent his voice to the argument calling for real estate agents to be subject to the same re...

Funds management

Gone are the days of state bickering of over who’s got the best beer, weather and hot commercial property between Sydney and Melbourne. It is now Sydney verse’s the rest ...

Financial planning

The proportion of Australians with direct share holdings dropped for the first time in two years, a survey has found....

Financial planning

Education is shaping up as one of the big financial planning issues over the next couple of years. But the debate has shifted. No longer do people argue over the benefits...

Financial planning

The National Australia Bank confirmed industry rumours by officially announcing it will purchase MLC from Lend Lease for $4.56 billion cash, with a completion date set fo...

Financial planning

Fees for transaction-based services will continue to fall as fund managers go direct and the financial planning industry builds on the service concept, says Skip Parish f...

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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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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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Entireti has unveiled the new name for the AMP financial advice businesses that it acquired last year....

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A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

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

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