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Now that the dust has settled on ASIC’s long awaited master trust and wraps pol-icy, most in the industry are enthusiastic about its implementation....

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The Internet can be a powerful leveller of the playing field, allowing the differences between medium sized and large financial planning firms to evaporate quickly....

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The growth in global technology stocks is not a bubble and is just the beginning of a cycle that could last 30-years, according to a leading US fund manager....

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Well known industry figure Mercantile Mutual funds management general manager Paul Bed-brook has left the fund manager to take on a new role within the ING Group....

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Software developed by Australian-based funds management group BBL Funds Management is making inroads into the Asian markets with deals signed in Singa-pore and India....

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The Australian financial services arms of German financial services giants Deutsche and Dresdner will feel the winds of global change later this year following the merger...

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Associated Planners has come up with what it believes is the first wrap account style system for life insurance products....

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Australians are cooling towards investments in shares, property, super, managed funds and even their own homes, according to the March 2000 Challenger/ASSIRT Investment S...

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The growth in global technology stocks is not a bubble and is just the beginning of a cycle that could last 30-years, according to a leading US fund manager....

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Mercantile Mutual says its distribution networks are ready for the spate of market changes expected later this year with the company’s inhouse brokerage and dealer group ...

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Hillross Financial Services’ managing director Jonathan Harrison has resigned. Harrison will take up another posting within the AMP Group, as general manager for customer...

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New Zealand’s Labour government has back-tracked on its pre-election promise to introduce an income tax funded superannuation fund in the face of parliamentary op-positio...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months 4 weeks ago

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

8 months ago

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

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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....

3 weeks 4 days ago

The Federal Court has made interim travel restraint orders against two Falcon Capital directors, while also freezing one director’s assets....

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