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Financial planning

BT Financial Group has sold its registries division to Australia’s largest provider of share registration services Computershare....

Financial planning

MLC has extended its MasterKey investment platform to offer a complete portfolio management system to independent financial advisers....

Financial planning

Australian investors will sink more than $2.8 trillion into managed funds by 2012, according to Commonwealth Bank currency strategist Michael Workman....

Financial planning

Rob Keavney is no stranger to controversy. A recent article Keavney wrote to counter some of the extremes of exuberance on hedge funds sparked a number of detailed respon...

Editorial

By Damien Hatfield The article ‘Hedge funds fail the asset class test’ in Money Management (24 May 2001) is a particularly timely discussion of a number of important issu...

Editorial

I must readily concede a key point made in the responses to my article on hedge funds (Money Management, May 24). The article dealt with only certain types of funds and c...

Financial planning

Signs of a bull and bear market emerged in May when both Australian shares and listed property were the top performing asset classes for the month....

Financial planning

The founding members of the Evensky Group are dissolving their partnership only weeks before financing they sought for part of a US$45 million financial planning empire i...

Financial planning

New Zealand's largest fund manager, AMP Henderson Global Investors, has revamped its investment operations structure and personnel which has resulted in its local equity ...

Financial planning

Standard and Poors (S&P) have confirmed that the group will move into rating managed funds later this year, with equity funds the first to fall under the spotlight....

Editorial

As the push into defensive assets continues while markets head south, neglected asset classes continue to attract more of the spotlight. However Rob Keavney argues not al...

Financial planning

Last night’s budget announcement will have minimal effect on financial markets, according to financial services industry sentiment....

Funds management

Australian equities bounced back in April after being the big underperformers in March, the latest Ausbil Dexia research shows....

Funds management

One of New Zealand's biggest property bond issues has run into trouble and the 1700 investors involved are unlikely to see all their money until at least two years after ...

Financial planning

The New York Stock Exchange will run a pilot program this year to test a global stock exchange, comprising ten of the world’s leading markets, including Australia. This G...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months 3 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....

3 weeks 4 days ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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