FINANCIAL PLANNING

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Value-oriented fund managers perform best in a bear market, according to new Australian equities manager research from a major platform provider....

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The Commonwealth’s Future Fund represents the biggest pay-day for the funds management community since the introduction of compulsory superannuation, but could distort Au...

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sent another strong signal that it plans to take a hands-on role to police the superannuation industry in the lea...

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Today’s risk advisers are having a tough time replacing themselves. There are no hard figures to prove numbers are dwindling, but most in the industry accept there is a p...

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The message is clear, says Sue Laing, financial planners must address risk with their clients. And if they are not going to form a strategic alliance with a risk adviser,...

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While it would seem the American financial consumer likes hands-on help, Australians may want some ’professional distance’, as Ray Griffin investigates....

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Is history haunting change in financial planning distribution?...

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Perpetual Investment’s decision to establish a Dublin-based in-house international equities office has cost them $250 million in funds under management, thanks to the clo...

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The Australian and overseas sharemarkets continued to decline in April, with domestic equities producing their worst monthly return for over two years....

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This week Money Management welcomes industry veteran RAY GRIFFIN to its stable of regular columnists. A former FPA chairman and Money Management Financial Planner of the ...

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Increasingly, financial services organisations are conducting expensive searches offshore to replace senior executives when they resign....

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If volatility is the market neutral fund’s friend, then the smooth upward trajectory of most equity indices during 2004 presented a hostile environment....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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