Advisers never cease to amaze me. I thought I was beyond shock as far as the ego and greed of some advisers were concerned. But from recent articles I have read; conversa...
Bendigo Investment Services is looking to build from Bendigo Bank’s grass roots base in the bush to a fully-fledged financial planning group. John Wilkinson explores the ...
Everybody loves looking for work, particularly when you’re already working. There’s nothing better than hunching over your telephone, whispering at almost incoherent leve...
After much deliberation, the Senate passed the member/ trustee laws late last year which have significanrt ramifications for self managed super funds (SMSF). The March 31...
Long standing RetireInvest director Peter Townshend has relinquished his seat on the RetireInvest board to concentrate on his own solicitor’s practice....
A range of UK investment products are expected to become available in Australia with Colonial’s latest acquisition, a Scottish fund manager....
Fixed interest products are set to boom as a result of recent capital gains tax (CGT) changes, says one manager....
Lowest PE ratios* Company PE (times) Macq Infra 3.44 Aj Industrial Trust 7.62 Foodland 7.98 Qantas 8.34 Austrim 8.74 Brierley 9.24 Boral 9.26 Orica 9.94...
Seminars can be the simplest way of marketing your practice to prospective clients, but you need to plan them carefully to get the best results. Jason Spits reports. For...
RACV Financial Services (RACVFS) has launched its new master trust — SuperChoice — this week and will be using external managers for the first time....
As any financial adviser knows, the best way to sound authoritative about the share market is to guess. That is exactly how Christine Kiernan of Kiernan Consultants manag...
Like all small business people, financial planners would like to broadcast their serv-ices across the rooftops. Sam Walker investigates whether anyone is really listening...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...