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Funds management

Clime Investment Management is overhauling the selection process for its APLs, with managing director Michael Baragwanath describing the threat of a product failure affec...

Features

Last year’s volatility has prompted several listed investment vehicles to move away from the structure but firms operating them say there are still benefits, writes Laura...

Financial planning

The deputy chair of a key Parliamentary committee has pointed to claims that AMP Limited is charging product manufacturers as much as $22,000 to be included on an approve...

Financial planning

Financial advisers have emerged as unwitting casualties of the Productivity Commission’s final report on superannuation competitiveness and efficiency....

Financial planning

With the Royal Commission questioning the role of Approved Product Lists a larger question has arisen about whether self-licensed advisers are achieving better outcomes t...

Funds management

Antipodes Global Investment Company (APL) has declared its maiden dividend of five cents per share, 50 per cent franked....

Life/Risk

ClearView has launched an attack on the FSC over its life insurance APL draft standard, arguing it does not tackle conflicts of interests and proves the industry cannot s...

Features

An increasing number of Australians are looking to pursue ethical investments outside of superannuation but, as Mike Taylor reports, there is a concern that some planners...

Funds management

Investment company, Antipodes Global, has launched an IPO for the listed version of its ‘recommended’ global managed fund. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 4 weeks ago

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

6 months 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....

4 weeks 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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