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Financial planning

22 Oct

Advisers need to build property expertise

Planners have next to no education in the area of direct property investment, which, according to some industry commentators, is a serious oversight. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

22 Oct

Aussie excellence puts education on the map

As the financial services sector has grown and matured throughout South-East Asia, Australia has emerged as an educational centre of excellence. Mike Taylor reports....

Superannuation

20 Oct

Labor to outline super and retirement incomes model

The Australian Labor Party is expected to outline a full choice superannuation model when it uses next month’s Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA) annual...

Financial planning

13 Oct

Move focus from monthly performance: ING

The financal services industry should abandon its focus on end-of-month performance figures with investors needing to understand quarterly data at least presents a more a...

Financial planning

09 Oct

Coonan tries again with amended portability regulations

The Federal Government will today gazette amended superannuation portability regulations after having reached agreement with the Australian Democrats on the consolidation...

Financial planning

09 Oct

AMP demerger gets green light from APRA

AMP Limited has cleared one of the final hurdles to the demerger of its Australian and UK operations, following receipt today of ‘in principle’ approval from the Australi...

Superannuation

09 Oct

Bricks and mortar and the super market

Australia’s best-performing super funds recently have been those with a higher than average allocation towards property and minimal exposure to international equities, wr...

Financial planning

09 Oct

Democrats to support Govt despite same-sex veto

The Australian Democrats will continue their support for legislation supporting superannuation co-contributions for low-income earners when it returns to the Senate, desp...

Financial planning

08 Oct

Govt expected to veto same sex changes

The Federal Government is today expected to veto yesterday’s Senate amendments to its superannuation legislation which in effect clear the way for the transmission of tax...

Financial planning

06 Oct

Investors advised to tread carefully

Investors have been warned to taper their high bullish sentiment levels towards Australian equities by the president of the Australian Investors’ Association (AIA), Bob A...