AUSTRALIAN UNITY
Funds management
With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...
Financial planning
Client satisfaction with their advisers' skills and reliability has improved significantly in the past six months despite stagnant share market performance....
Funds management
Retail investors remain cautious when it comes to investing in the mortgage fund space, according to Australian Unity Investments head of mortgages Roy Prasad....
Financial planning
Over the past six months, Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has added 26 financial advisers to its business....
Funds management
Despite many investors' negative experience during the GFC, Australian Unity's Mark Pratt and Cameron Dickman say property fits the gap needed to create an income stream ...
Financial planning
Australian Unity Personal Financial Services has taken a majority stake in Certainty Financial, a corporate advisory firm with $500m in funds under advice....
Funds management
Mortgage trusts are beginning to be accepted by investors as a longer-term income-generating asset, not simply a short-term cash-like proposition, according to SQM Resear...
Financial planning
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has initiated a discounted rights offer aimed at raising up to $28.9 million to fund the proposed expansion of three of the 22 properti...
Financial planning
The Australian Unity Altius Bond Fund has received a 'recommended' rating from ratings house Zenith Investment Partners....
Financial planning
Australian Unity will seek to use current disenchantment with the major banks to push its Big Sky Building Society....
Financial planning
Australian Unity will seek to use current disenchantment with the major banks to push its Big Sky Building Society....
Financial planning
The members of Big Sky Credit Union have approved the transfer of the business to Lifeplan Australia Building Society, effective 1 March 2012....
Financial planning
The members of Big Sky Credit Union have approved the transfer of the business to Lifeplan Australia Building Society, effective 1 March 2012....
Editorial
The popularity of cash products does not seem to revolve solely around investment sentiment anymore. Milana Pokrajac reports....
Financial planning
Specialist property research company IPD this week launched a new product - the PCA/IPD Healthcare Property Investment Index....
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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...