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Before falling foul of the law and losing $165 million on behalf of it inves-tors, the Wattle scheme had lured about 3000 investors and at least 10 financial advisers int...

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Before falling foul of the law and losing $165 million on behalf of it investors, the Wattle scheme had lured about 3000 investors and at least 10 financial advisers into...

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Connelly Temple has been pulled up by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) over the wording of a brochure promoting its range of life in-surance prod...

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Investors Mutual has been dealt a blow with a further erosion of its $300 million funds under management....

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Merrill Lynch’s senior management is in for a shake-up with the news that chief executive officer for Australasia John Magowan will retire....

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There has been a significant and consistent move forwards in professionalism in retail financial services....

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Financial planners will wither and die unless they harness the enormous power of the Internet. So says Gary Chow, organiser of the first ever financial services dot com ...

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Fidelity Investments has fired the first salvo in a direct assault on Charles Schwab’s dominance of the adviser referral business, launching an initiative to link custome...

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It seems the world’s richest are about to get a whole lot richer, which can only be good news for financial planners focussing on high net worth individuals....

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Case study Let's consider a potential client, Marlene aged 58, who's looking for your guid-ance in establishing a retirement income....

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Ralph changes to the taxation on entities will bring trusts in line with indi-vidual tax rates - a move which could put many unwary investors at risk of pay-ing too much ...

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Online discount broker TD Waterhouse has struck deals with both Morningstar and InvestmentLink to provide research and portfolio administration services on a se-lection o...

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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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