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Hong Kong has become the 14th country in the world to officially adopt the Certified Fi-nancial Planner (CFP) mark....

Financial planning

Morningstar is set to expand its product offerings with the roll out of further products designed at bringing its local offerings in line with that offered through the re...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank has become one of the first local financial services providers to provide screen scraping facilities with the rollout of a website to customers on the week...

Financial planning

An admission by two major UK public pension schemes that they wrongly advised thousands of immigrating clients has reignited the controversy over advice for immigrants to...

People & Products

Australian institutional investors will soon be demanding hedge funds in their investment portfolios, according to AXA global structured products managing director Barry ...

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch has launched a broad index of Australian debt securities that is one of the final building blocks in its soon-to-be-launched global index....

Funds management

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

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

Mercantile Mutual’s investment and life insurance businesses recorded strong growth in the 1999 year, offsetting losses in its parent company’s general insurance and bank...

Financial planning

It has often been said that stock brokers and securities traders look down on the fi-nancial planning industry. That's going to be less likely in future, according to War...

Financial planning

It won’t be long before a host of Australian Internet sites will being doing many of the tasks that keep financial planners busy. But, according to Hillross Financial Ser...

Financial planning

Japanese equities were one of the stand-out performers on global share markets last year....

Financial planning

The number of people licensed to use the CFP designation in the United States has broken the 35,000 barrier and set a new record, according to the Certified Financial Pla...

Financial planning

Australia has the highest proportion of share ownership in the world with more than half of the nation's adults now investing in the stock market, according to the Austra...

Financial planning

A lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing. New research shows that too much information, and the way our brains process it, can hamper our investment per-formance. Zill...

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