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The official unveiling of Compound Investments at this year’s Financial Planning Association (FPA)annual convention will be one of the industry’s lesser guarded secrets....

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Planners who help clients set up self managed superannuation funds must also tackle the issue of who will be the trustee. Ben Smythe examines how an external third party ...

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Morningstar’s quarterly report on the state of the managed funds industry shows that Australian retail fund assets fell over the three months of the September 2001 quarte...

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Challenger International has managed to secure record revenues of $351.3 million in the September quarter of this year, despite the uncertainty pervading world equity mar...

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A personal crisis has cost a former Westpac financial adviser three years imprisonment after she was charged with scamming $115,000 from clients to pay off her own credit...

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Ruth Richardson, the chair of the board of Morningstar Research Pty Ltd, has stepped down from the position after failing to receive assurances from the US directors rega...

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Morningstar Research Pty Ltd chief executive and publisher, Graham Rich, is filing for damages against the group’s US based majority shareholder, Morningstar Inc....

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The man who turned using the terms “disgraced” and “former police officer” together in the same sentence a cliché, disgraced former NSW police officer Roger “the dodger” ...

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America’s Certified Financial Planner (CFP) Board is planning to relinquish some of its control to a new ruling world board, leaving the final say on global CFP matters t...

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Challenger International is set to pursue further alliances with a range of dealer groups in an attempt to fill the hole left in its distribution ambitions by the break d...

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Sealcorp’s Private Label business, the tailored master trust Sealcorp offers to large dealer groups and institutions, has had a windfall gain, adding to the full year pro...

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Asking someone who to name a person they consider to be an influential person is not easy, but when the question is narrowed and the aim is to pick the most influential p...

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

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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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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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