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Financial planning

A burgeoning licensee admits it has had to turn away prospective advisers who did not fit with the business’ trajectory, despite solid growth in the last year....

Financial planning

Australian Unity-owned Big Sky Building Society appoints new CEO. ...

Financial planning

Margin lending has always represented a part of the financial planner’s strategy toolkit but the collapse of Storm Financial soured public perceptions of leverage. Money ...

Editorial

Retail advisers have traditionally shied away from alternative investments, but an upswing in the market could see them become a hot ticket option in 2014, particularly f...

People & Products

J.P Morgan Asset Management has recruited Stephen Alcorn as head of institutional....

Superannuation

SMSF trustees should look to commercial property to avoid overheated residential property investment market. ...

Editorial

Australian Unity’s financial services business defied sluggish growth trends across the rest of the group to lift its FUM by a record $3.2 billion in the half year to Dec...

Editorial

One of the biggest challenges that investors face is working out what impact economic, financial, political, commercial or social events will have on their investments. A...

Financial planning

While the financial advice industry remains subject to much surveillance and scrutiny, the regulators are 10 years behind in bringing mortgage brokers to task, some claim...

Superannuation

The superannuation guarantee needs to be drastically increased to 18 per cent for the system to become adequate, according to a financial services executive....

Financial planning

Financial planners will need to spend a considerable amount of time building new models to help their clients navigate incoming aged care legislation, according to an ins...

Funds management

Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has proposed to merge its Australian Unity Fifth Commercial Trust (FCT) with its unlisted Australian Unity Office Property Fund (OPF), ...

Editorial

The Asian equities market is vulnerable to US quantitative easing in the short term, but the market itself is very diverse and the longer-term outlook stronger. ...

Editorial

As the boom in the Australian economy recedes, investors from this country are beginning to look at rising Asian equities as a strategy to boost returns – but a sense of ...

Funds management

New products promising high returns for low risk are often too good to be true, according to Australian Unity Investments. ...

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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...

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ASIC has released the results of the latest adviser exam, with August’s pass mark improving on the sitting from a year ago. ...

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The inquiry into the collapse of Dixon Advisory and broader wealth management companies by the Senate economics references committee will not be re-adopted. ...

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