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Financial planning

The best and worst of practice management

Practice management can mean the difference between having an efficient or sloppy planning business. KATE KACHOR reports on what the industry considers the best and worst...

Financial planning

The Strategist Group - back from the brink

Looking back, Grant Abbott, the chief executive of The Strategist Group (TSG), is not sure exactly when things started to go so wrong with his business, all he knows is t...

Financial planning

Heavy users of master trusts come clean on their appeal

Master trust funds under administration continue to grow, as financial planners embrace these platforms with increasing enthusiasm. NICOLE SZOLLOS speaks to some of the b...

Financial planning

IntegraTec OnTrack with adviser training

IntegraTec Training launched its new adviser training service today, OnTrack, an online continuing education solution for financial planners....

Financial planning

The debate should be about the quality of advice

Over the last few years I’ve noticed that industry commentators are focussing on the issue of so called “independence” of advice and then drawing the conclusion that this...

Financial planning

BT moves into small caps market

BT Funds Management is the latest group to start up a fund in the increasingly popular small caps area, with the BT Australian Small Companies Fund launched this week....

Financial planning

Sanford records positive cash flow

Financial services group Sanford has reported a positive cash flow in its results for the December quarter, indicating continued strength in the business during a difficu...

Financial planning

IWL gets strong growth in cashflow

Financial services technology group, IWL has recorded strong growth in operating cash flow for the quarter ending 31 December 2001...

Financial planning

AMP optimistic despite cash flow slump

AMP continues to be optimistic about achieving double digit growth in core operating margins, despite a severe 60 per cent downturn in third quarter net cash flows on las...

Financial planning

IWL shrugs off poor conditions

Despite recent, sizeable purchases and a general downturn in the market InvestorWeb (IWL) has reported a further quarter of positive operating cash flow, shrugging off ca...

Policy & Regulation

Plantation investments get tax boost

The Federal government has offered Australia’s plantation forestry managed investment industry a major tax concession in a move that is expected to breath new life into t...

Editorial

Sanford records $54 million loss

Financial services group Sanford has recorded a loss of more than $54 million for the 2001 financial year, despite achieving a positive cash flow for the first time in Au...

Financial planning

Application dates for RBL’s extended.

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has announced that they have made a decision to allow eligible persons to make an application for a transitional reasonable benefits limit...

Financial planning

Stock selection rules the roost

In the year of the tech-wreck in global equity markets, declining interest rates and a slowing global economy, those fund managers who stuck to investment fundamentals ha...

Editorial

Property funds shine in falling equity markets

As always, developments in the equity market have had a powerful influence on the investment decisions made by fund managers specialising in property. With the slower equ...