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Prominent financial adviser Anthony Starkins has called for the outlawing of commissions because they contravene the fiduciary relationship between advisers and clients....

Financial planning

Retail investors have never had it so good in terms of the information available to them regarding investments and this doesn't seem to be tapering off. ...

Financial planning

Exchange-traded funds will soon hit the Australian market, following an agreement made yesterday between Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and international invest-ment man...

Financial planning

<B>Hockey not swayed by ethics </B>The Federal Financial Services Minister, Joe Hockey’s knock back of a proposal for disclosure of ethical considerations taken by invest...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank have joined the growing list of online service providers adding man-aged funds to its product list, and is in talks to provide online advice....

Financial planning

The battle for the position as pre-eminent Internet personal finance site is hotting up with news the My Money Group, headed up by Money Management founder David Koch, is...

Financial planning

Australian Unity is to buy another four private hospitals from the Alpha Healthcare ...

Financial planning

A new West Australian winery investment scheme is hoping to create an adult theme park to benefit from the growing tourism push in the Margaret River area south of Perth....

Financial planning

Australian Unity is to buy another four private hospitals from the Alpha Healthcare Group to add to its Healthcare Property Trust....

Funds management

Coastal Capital has become one of a growing number of fund managers marketing hedge funds to retail investors....

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...

Financial planning

Challenger Portfolio Management is to become the latest group to jump on the ethical funds band wagon when it takes over management of the Tyndall Ethical Balanced Invest...

Funds management

For financial planners to attract and retain affluent clients, the so-called emerging wealth investor, such as self managed super fund trustees, they need to offer a broa...

Financial planning

Ord Minnett has brushed aside the wreckage of last month's tech stock shakeup to emerge with Australia's first big technology venture capital fund for retail investors....

Financial planning

Strong market conditions allowed Australian companies to raise $23 billion in new equity in the half year to end 31 December last year, according to a KMPG Corporate Fina...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

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

4 months ago

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...

3 weeks ago

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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