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Financial planning

Cold calling is finding a new lease of life as offshore groups seek investors to part with their cash. Yet many of these are either not licensed to operate or even on the...

Financial planning

Europeans are to be the dominant global investors in the next five years, according to HSBC head of European equities Chris Rice....

Financial planning

Financial Planning Association (FPA) members will provide one free interview to victims of defaulting solicitors’ mortgage schemes....

Financial planning

As the shaky dot.coms and booming biotech stocks of last year become just a painful memory investors are questioning the best method to invest in equities. Kate Kachor co...

Financial planning

Australian investors have enjoyed a pleasant start to the new year with equity and bond markets around the world rallying after a poor run in the last half of 2000....

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank will be throwing the door open to the online US share trading market by giving their customers access to a US online broker for $US39.95 ($A72.18) a trade....

Financial planning

Australian investors are finally heeding advice to diversify share investments, flocking to international share funds in droves....

Financial planning

Charles Schwab has had its eye on Australia’s financial market place for the past two years, it was revealed yesterday....

Editorial

With the recent popularity in the global biotech industry sending investors into a spin, Kate Kachor looks at the current opportunities for investing in biotechnology for...

Financial planning

US fund managers have taken advantage of laws allowing them to sell funds over the Internet using electronic signatures....

Funds management

Australian investors had their brokers working overtime last month, as the storm that clouded the international equity market lifted slightly according to an Ausbil Dexia...

Financial planning

Australian investors are increasingly turning to the internet to buy managed funds according to head of the National Australia Bank (NAB) owned on-line investing service,...

Financial planning

Most Australian investors believe they will be worse off under the goods and services tax (GST) and even those who think they will be better off do not expect to increase...

Funds management

Coastal Capital has become one of a growing number of fund managers marketing hedge funds to retail investors....

Financial planning

Russell Hooper’s boutique funds management group Castle Capital Management is to list an investment fund on the Australian stock exchange specialising in Euro-pean small ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months 1 week ago

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

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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