After eleven months of uncertainty, financial advisers now have a clearer indi-cation as to how the changes to the investment rules for superannuation funds, announced in...
Highly regarded technical expert Roslyn Shirlaw has returned to the RetireInvest fold after an absence of just over a year. ...
Some financial advisers are up in arms at news that St George Bank is withdrawing the Advance Management Instalment Gearing Product (IGP). The bank plans to phase out the...
Asia is coming out of its low-value environment and is starting to show some real growth in company values, says Capital international senior vice-president Robert Ronus....
Perpetual Investments has restructured its balanced fund, giving it more of a global orientation in line with its strengthened relationship with Fidelity In-ternational. ...
Credit Suisse Asset Management is new to the retail market, having only just launched a series of funds aimed at the private investor. The response from the market, howev...
The Godfrey Pembroke story is one that this newspaper has followed with intense interest well before the Godfrey Weston and Pembroke businesses merged. The pioneers - sen...
Performance track record is the common starting point for both retail and wholesale fund management appointments. Industry publications such as Money Management and Perso...
As foreshadowed in a previous column, IFSA has completed its submission on the CLERP 6 consultation paper on financial products, service providers and markets. Many submi...
At the end of April, the Assistant Treasurer released an exposure draft of the Superannuation Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 4) 1999. This is the legislation that implem...
Margin lending clients can open up a whole new demographic market for advisers, according to Macquarie Bank Equities Lending associate di-rector, Mary Thompson. Thompson,...
Instalment warrants have been around for little more than two years, but they are fast becoming a force to be reckoned with....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...