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Financial planning

23 Sep

ASIC cracks down on super release promoters

Two executives of a firm that allows superannuation fund members to redeem their super today appeared in the Gold Coast Magistrates Court charged with making false or mis...

Financial planning

22 Sep

Encore snares ex-CBA exec in WA push

Practice management and consultant firm, the Encore Group, has expanded into Western Australia with the luring of ex-Commonwealth Bank executive Graeme Hyland to head up ...

Financial planning

22 Sep

Snowball strikes deal with UXC

Snowball Group, through its superannuation services subsidiary CIS Financial Services, has been appointed by listed technical services company UXC to run the superannuati...

Financial planning

22 Sep

Portfolio Partners closes small-cap door

Portfolio Partners is set to close its small-cap Emerging Shares Trust to institutional investors and use its remaining capacity for retail inflows sourced through master...

Funds management

22 Sep

Pengana hedge funds attract industry interest

Pengana Capital has been approached by a number of potential partners to its private equity ‘hedge fund incubator’ venture - a hedge fund-of-funds that will aim to invest...

Financial planning

19 Sep

Growth returns to a neutral market

Growth styled managers have ousted their value counterparts as the better performing investment style for the first time in nearly three years according to the latest InT...

Financial planning

18 Sep

Portability shot down in Senate

The Federal Government’s superannuation portability regulations have been shot down in the Senate this morning after being disallowed due to Assistant Treasurer, Senator ...

Financial planning

18 Sep

AMP gets ASIC go ahead on licences

AMP has had the 10 Australian Financial Services Licences it applied for last month to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) granted by the peak regu...

Financial planning

18 Sep

ASIC calls on industry to remove poor advisers

The financial planning industry is struggling to rid itself of incompetent and outright fraudulent advisers due to dealer groups fearing defamation reprisals and a tarnis...

Financial planning

17 Sep

Global debt manager to buy into Absolute Capital

Alternative investment firm Absolute Capital is seeking a major shareholder to bolster and support its alternative debt operations - the lions share of its business - fol...