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Last month, Australia’s investment watchdog fired out a missive to investors alerting them to the dangers of the margin lending market. Samantha Walker asked the in-dustr...

Financial planning

A stock market listing, a new fee structure and a management team not afraid to speak their minds – there is never a dull moment at Count Wealth Accountants. Samantha Wal...

Financial planning

Australia has the highest proportion of share ownership in the world with more than half of the nation's adults now investing in the stock market, according to the Austra...

Financial planning

It has been a heady decade for the ASX. It ended the 90s with a domestic market capitalisation of about $652 billion – 3.7 times the $177.8 billion it closed the 80s at....

Financial planning

A range of new schemes have emerged over the past years offering financial advisers a form of ownership in funds management and master trust businesses....

Financial planning

Independent financial planners remain the number one choice for consumers looking for financial advice, according to the recent Challenger International/ Assirt Invest-me...

Financial planning

Dow Jones Indexes has launched an Australian index which covers 95 per cent of the Australian share market....

Financial planning

Independent financial planners remain the number one choice for consumers looking for financial advice, according to the recent Challenger International/ Assirt Invest-me...

Policy & Regulation

Content Capital, one of the two companies granted a license to raise up to $20 mil-lion in concessional capital for investments in films, has announced its first project....

Financial planning

Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) is scheduled to list by the middle of this month, after its float reached its minimum subscription levels....

Financial planning

While most investors think of the ASX when they think shares, there is also a thriving but lesser known share market that can offer quality investments at good prices. Pe...

Financial planning

The Financial Industry Complaints Service (FICS) has become the first off the blocks in the race to sign up responsible entities to its scheme....

Financial planning

Mercantile Mutual are a bunch of people with reasons to be happy!...

Funds management

Proposed changes to the All Ordinaries Index will allow better comparisons of fund managers and their claimed styles, according to industry pundits....

Financial planning

After months of wrangling, Consolidated Financial Services (CFS) has launched a prospectus to list in October and raise $1.4 million, nearly 12 months after the initial p...

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

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Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....

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