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Financial planning

Professional codes of conduct that meet approval in terms of obviating the need for financial advisers to comply with opt-in will need to achieve the same outcomes as opt...

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Financial planning

After taking more than $150,000 from 100 of his clients, Mayfield-based risk agent Phillip Paddison has received a permanent ban from the financial services industry, ASI...

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Financial planning

AMP Capital has picked up a key fixed income mandate from BT Financial Group and Advance....

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Funds management

New analysis from the US suggests investors are insisting hedge funds insure against the untimely demise of their investment gurus....

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Superannuation

The deepening use of social media for member communication is pushing superannuation funds closer to transgressing the legal frameworks set in place to govern general and...

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Financial planning

New research suggests the Eurozone crisis has accelerated the use of mobile apps to help financial advisers stay close to their high net worth clients....

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Editorial

Multi-manager funds might have done well on the inflows front, but the dispersion between returns across the sector has been at its widest for a number of years. This cou...

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Financial planning

In the latest outcome of its investigation, ASIC has accepted an enforceable undertaking from former Commonwealth Financial Planning employee Joe Chan. ...

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People & Products

Adrian McGarva, a fellow at the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, has been appointed a principal at independent financial services firm Professional Financial Services...

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Financial planning

New York-based specialist company MSCI Inc has launched the Barra Australia Equity Model (AUE4) to help drive returns in the Australian equity market....

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Financial planning

APRA has warned banks about ensuring cost-cutting does not result in unintended consequences....

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Funds management

Schroder Investment Management will keep wearing its crown for at least another year after the company took out the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year title...

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Financial planning

Although financial planners are often told it is cheaper to be the authorised representative of a major licensee, that is not necessarily the case, according to Pathway L...

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Funds management

The market volatility that characterised much of 2011 proved a key decider in the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year global equities long/short category, wi...

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People & Products

TAL Limited has announced the appointment of Kent Griffin as chief financial officer....

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