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Weeding out non-profitable clients is a critical part of running a successful business, however many financial planners lack the confidence to confront these clients, acc...

Residential property developments have been through one of the biggest slumps in recent times, due almost entirely to the introduction of GST....

Residential property developments have been through one of the biggest slumps in recent times, due almost entirely to the introduction of GST....

Perpetual Trustees today reported a 62 per cent jump in net profit to become a stand out player in the financial services market with $27.5 million for the six months to ...

Fund managers are commonly pigeon-holed as either value managers or growth managers. Rob Keavney believes this approach, borrowed from our American cousins, is both facil...

Since bursting on to the financial services scene in the middle of last year, account aggregators or screen scrapers have been one of the hottest discussion points in the...

History is bunk according to Henry Ford but the same doesn't necessarily apply to the financial world where history can often provide valuable pointers to the future. For...

While the issue of life insurance will usually crop up at some point in discussions with a client, HELEN TROUP believes that a discussion of risk should cover the well-be...

With the recent popularity in the global biotech industry sending investors into a spin, Kate Kachor looks at the current opportunities for investing in biotechnology for...

A member of a self managed super fund (SMSF) currently has an accumulation balance of $400,000. They are 62 years of age, working part-time, and all of their benefits in ...

Online share broker E*Trade Australia has recorded a net loss of $53.8 million in the 12 months to the end of June, wider than the $3.9 million loss reported in the previ...

Agricultural investment schemes suffer from an image problem, but Canberra’s only fund manager wants to change all that, as John Wilkinson reports....

 

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Simon J

What do you think the motivation is behind this broadly worded legislation Peter? Is it to make it harder for retail ...

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PETER JOHNSTON- AIOFP

The FSC should have thought about this when they cooperated with O'Dywer/Frydenberg/Hume/FPA/AFA 10 years ago when this...

11 hours ago
Simon J

Sick of it. Canberra is a joke....

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

10 months ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months 3 weeks ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

10 months ago