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Financial planning

23 Nov

Direct investment company Explorer Group has taken a strategic stake in boutique fund manager Above the Index Asset Management and gained the services of industry stalwar...

Financial planning

22 Nov

Change to buyback rules a boost for LICs

The much maligned listed investment company market received a windfall today after the ASX allowed Macquarie Investment Management to offer a redemption facility with one...

Financial planning

22 Nov

Forestry fund abandons London for ASX

A Queensland forestry agribusiness fund manager is looking at a possible ASX listing as it plans an exit strategy for its investors....

Financial planning

22 Nov

IR reforms ignite super fears

ASFA has expressed concern that the Federal Government's new industrial relations laws will not enshrine superannuation as a key employment condition beyond June 30, 2008...

Policy & Regulation

21 Nov

Fees debate masks hefty tax bills

New research from Morningstar shows that 70 per cent of Australia’s top 10 performing wholesale funds delivered double digit income returns in the 12 months to June 2005,...

Financial planning

21 Nov

FPA unbundles the cost of advice

The FPA’s Principles on Conflicts of Interest have been refined into four statements following feedback from its membership....

Financial planning

21 Nov

Planners urged to offer charitable advice

Ignore the wave of increasing community involvement at your own peril. These words of warning for financial planners came from Coca-Cola Amatil’s chair David Gonski, spea...

Financial planning

21 Nov

Minnow joins the big guns in China

A small, Melbourne-based dealer group has done what only a handful of the global institutional managers have managed to do in Australia – launched its own China-specific ...

Financial planning

21 Nov

Mawson chief departs to start own business

Independent dealership Mawson Group is currently looking for a new head, after current chief executive Les Mace announced he was leaving the group to start up his own bus...

Financial planning

18 Nov

ASIC comes down on four funds

Four large industry superannuation funds have been reprimanded by the corporate regulator for not clearly outlining how much insurance cover clients will lose if they lea...