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Financial planning

Australian Ethical has launched the Climate Advocacy Fund, which will invest in S&P/ASX 200 firms with environmentally conscious practices....

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Financial planning

The owners of small to medium enterprises are delaying their exit from the businesses because of continuing economic uncertainty....

Tools & guides

The question of whether the purchase of trauma insurance within superannuation is a breach of the sole purpose test has been resolved. Jennifer Brookhouse examines the im...

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Financial planning

Investors should be prepared for increasingly volatile investment conditions - but that means rewards may be found in relatively vanilla investments, argues Dr Pippa Malm...

Editorial

With the financial crisis effectively over, Benjamin Levy examines the state of the direct property market and looks at the role it should play for investors in the futur...

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Policy & Regulation

Australian small business owners are working overtime to fulfil their tax reporting obligations, spending almost 60 hours a year going over their books....

Editorial

In a speech addressing the Agribusiness Association of Australia, David Bryant explains why tax-effective managed investment funds are fundamentally flawed and pose a sig...

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Tools & guides

MLC's Jon de Fries explains why income protection insurance can be just as important for higher income earners and discusses some policy ownership issues....

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Editorial

Financial planners have a bad reputation, but there should be a distinction between 'proper' financial planners and the 'bottom dwellers', writes Michael Dale....

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Financial planning

HSBC has launched a new China region structured investment product as part of its 100+ series....

Tools & guides

Holding large value illiquid assets in a SMSF could prove problematic when a trust member dies. Deborah Wixted explains the obligations and options trustees and their fin...

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Policy & Regulation

Financial planners running small businesses will be among the first to receive a reduction in the company tax rate, while conditions for small business asset depreciation...

Editorial

The current environment is delivering high yields and attractive risk-adjusted returns in the corporate bond market. Andrew Lill explores the opportunities for investors ...

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Accounting

Accountants may seek compensation from the ATO as a result of damage to their reputation and bottom lines following problems flowing from the ATO's switch to a new IT sys...

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Financial planning

New legislation has prompted concern about the future of margin lending among industry commentators. Yet with confidence that the rebounding share market will stimulate f...

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

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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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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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