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Is research filtering diluting the quality of financial advice?

To what degree should dealer groups filter the data they receive from research houses and what impact is this having on the quality of financial advice?...

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Flat profit growth for year ahead

Perennial Value Management's managing director said the fund manager is projecting a period of flat profit growth, but on a yield basis, there's good value in the market....

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Reverse mortgage strategies come of age

Reverse mortgage products are attracting a new breed of strategic senior borrowers who are proving the industry’s naysayers wrong, argues MARTIN LYNCH....

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Financial services industry: alert, but not alarmed

The financial services industry needs to be alert to the fact that the Government is tightening regulatory control of the industry and its markets – not in a legislative ...

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Examining the DNA of managed investment schemes

The nature of managed investment schemes has come under close scrutiny in the recent Environinvest case, writes James Lonie....

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Superannuation performance figures that add up

The combination of superannuation fund choice and the first prolonged downturn since the advent of compulsory super has fragmented the industry, writes Pauline Vamos....

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Arafura Pearls suffers profit loss

Plunges more than 71 per cent during financial year despite revenue increase....

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Embattled Trinity posts $226 million net loss

Embattled property funds management group Trinity has posted an after-tax net loss of $226 million for the financial year to June 30, down from a net profit of $34.5 mill...

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Equality of scrutiny

When the industry funds refer to “vertically integrated financial institutions” they are really referring to the major banks and insurance companies. And they are right. ...

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Rescuing the orphans from your risk insurance client base

Col Fullagar considers the plight of orphan clients who try to make an insurance claim....

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What is the real cost of financial advice?

The cost of providing financial advice has not been readily measured or quantified across the industry, writes Paul Barrett....

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Austock looks to leaner future after $20 million loss

Austock records net loss of $20.9 million for the 2008-09 financial year, while financial planning team grows funds under management in first year....