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Australian equities funds available through Colonial First State’s joint venture with US-based asset managers Acadian will be offered to Australian retail investors for t...

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The ATO has expressed concern at the continuing use of the term ‘do-it-yourself super’ when referring to self-managed superannuation arguing that it can conjure up inappr...

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Independent financial advisers will remain key distribution channels for specialist life insurers PrefSure Holdings and Life Limited under its new owner Tower Australia....

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One of the five listed independent financial planning firms, Fiducian Portfolio Services, enjoyed a positive end to 2005, posting a healthy half-year profit and expanding...

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INGhas signed Xplan to enhance its online financial planning business support tool, Adviser Advantage, to add features that will allow advisers to more easily provide a s...

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Following the successful capital raising for Ray White Invest first retail property unit trust, the fund management division of the Ray White estate agency business inten...

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In further proof that choice of fund was no more than a flash in the pan for advisers, a new survey has found just a third of the very few people who switched funds and s...

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The Association of Financial Advisers has, for the first time in its history, created a role of chief executive officer, and appointed Richard Klipin, ING’s former head o...

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Planning practices have been urged by the Financial Planing Association (FPA) to appoint a ‘conflicts officer’ in order to comply with new regulations, but the associatio...

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Post graduate degree qualified people will no longer be able to gain an exemption from four out of the five units that must be obtained to receive the Certified Financial...

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ASIC has been too busy playing with the red tape of licence applications to perform its surveillance and enforcement activities, a damning report of the regulator’s perfo...

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Only one retail fund has featured among the top 10 rankings in a SuperRatings survey of balanced super fund performances last year....

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