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Despite a decline in retail agribusiness investments and some schemes being hit by late product rulings there has been an improvement in the quality of investments being ...

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The Australian Tax Office (ATO) is warning investors to take care over some questionable end-of-year investment schemes....

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As the end of the financial year approaches, Julie Bennett looks at how well advisers think traditional tax planning strategies stack up this year....

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Morningstar has downgraded AMP’s overall manager rating from four to three stars, following a combination of downgrades to forward-looking qualitative ratings and declini...

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Sydney-based dealer group Premium Accounting has signed on with Adviser Resource Centre (ARC) in a deal that pushes the number of dealer groups signed to the service this...

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Count Financial Limited managing director Barry Lambert has hit back at claims that Count’s recent share price rally occurred due to a bidding war between Westpac and CPH...

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Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) director financial services Ian Johnston says the regulator has already issued around 700 financial services licen...

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Australian managed funds experienced outflows of more than 10 per cent over the past financial year as investors took flight to bonds, cash and property in what was anoth...

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Mercer Investment Consulting has launched a retail investment research platform targeted specifically at the financial planning market, in direct competition with other p...

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State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) Australia has appointed former Westpac Investment Management chief investment officer Don Hamson into the newly created role of head o...

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Financial services company Navigator will be providing a low cost service to assist securities dealers and life insurance brokers obtain Australian Financial Services Lic...

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Chapel Road, the financial planning dealer group which had its licence revoked in April 2001, will be able to operate once again after the Administrative Appeals Tribunal...

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