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Financial planning

Despite a decline in retail agribusiness investments and some schemes being hit by late product rulings there has been an improvement in the quality of investments being ...

Financial planning

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) is warning investors to take care over some questionable end-of-year investment schemes....

Financial planning

The jury may be out on the wisdom of putting clients into margin lending – but all the signs say that this will be one product that will see increasing demand in coming m...

Financial planning

The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has confirmed an exclusive report from Money Management over a week ago that the SuperEC and MFundEC electroni...

Financial planning

Margin lending is not the only way to get into gearing. Philip McLean looks at instalments as an alternative....

Policy & Regulation

Delays in the issuance of product rulings by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has threatened the ability of a number of prominent agribusiness managed investment schemes t...

Financial planning

Three major industry groups have called for changes to the taxation arrangements for the provision of financial advice in submissions to the Senate Select Committee on Su...

Financial planning

Tim Browne from MLC scooped the inaugural Money Management/Resnik Communications Business Development Manager of the Year award....

Financial planning

Despite the poor performance and volatility of the markets Cameron Walshe adviser Wayne Lear says gearing is still a viable proposition....

Financial planning

The Count Financial Group is set to launch an superannuation trustee administration platform in conjunction with Trust, the group created out of the merger between Perman...

Financial planning

Warrants may be suitable for a variety of investors – from high income earners to non-residents and long-term investors. Nathalie Bouquet considers the benefits....

Editorial

Investor Group overcame “extremely difficult” market conditions to deliver its best ever first-half operating profit of $8.36 million in the six months to 31 December 200...

Financial planning

Australia’s peak industry body for the superannuation industry, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), has warned the Government that any increased ...

Financial planning

The big are getting bigger in the agribusiness sector, while smaller players are falling by the wayside, writes John Wilkinson....

Superannuation

A new industry body has been launched with the hope of raising industry standards amongst financial planners operating in the self managed super fund (SMSF) sector....

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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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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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