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Disillusionment with the funds management industry and a hunger for transparency among clients is fuelling a move towards direct equities....
Financial planning
Retail funds grew 4.6 per cent in the March quarter to $510 billion but were still down slightly over a 12-month period, according to Plan For Life data....
Editorial
Piers Bolger believes that emerging market debt will continue to grow in prominence and provide an alternative debt solution to developed market economies....
Financial planning
The extent of the current dealer group turf war has been revealed by new Wealth Insights research revealing around 44 per cent of the financial planners surveyed had been...
Financial planning
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has applied a four-star 'new' rating to the BT Global Fixed Interest Wholesale Fund, managed by BT Investment Management....
Financial planning
Despite the satisfaction with platforms reaching a nine-year high, a new survey suggests 40 per cent of financial planners would happily switch providers for lower fees....
Editorial
Is any sensible financial planning principal capable of resisting the offer of up to $1 million to change dealer groups and/or corporate allegiance?...
Financial planning
In the "noise" around how many Count practices have transitioned over to BT groups and under what arrangements, the reasons practices switch licensees seem to have been l...
Financial planning
Consensus is building in the wider financial services industry that platforms and asset managers should shoulder the burden of lower financial advice fees being demanded ...
Funds management
The majority of Australian REIT managers outperformed the index over the past 12 months, although performance suffered as a result of global uncertainty, according to Zen...
Editorial
The industry is still waiting on an announcement from the Government following the decision to remove the accountants' exemption on providing advice on SMSFs as part of F...
Editorial
In the current investment climate, alternative investments can provide valuable diversification. So why are investors still not jumping on the bandwagon? Freya Purnell re...
Financial planning
The apparent eruption of a financial planning distribution turf war in the immediate aftermath of the acquisition of Count Financial by the Commonwealth Bank has led to w...
Financial planning
When selling a financial planning practice, the handover period is crucial and it is advantageous for the vendor to remain in the business for a period of 12 months or mo...
Editorial
It's been a tough 12 months for fund managers with investor sentiment persistently negative and Australian shares among the worst-performing. Unfortunately, things might ...
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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...