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

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 ...

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

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...

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. ...

But equity and property market devaluations over the financial year hit revenue....

Prime Financial Group has posted a 55 per cent fall in net profit after tax for the 2009 full year, partly as a result of a 30 per cent fall in financial planning recurri...

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....

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

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

In the final part of their series on the risks of margin lending, PAUL RESNIK and PETER WORCESTER conclude that planners need to stress test a client’s portfolio in order...

Unchanged profit of $1.6 million, while revenue drops 2 per cent....

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