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Funds management

Treasury Group is expected to increase its stake in Northern Lights Capital Group following a successful capital raising which was oversubscribed by more than five times ...

Financial planning

New research suggests few superannuation fund members have any real idea of the life insurance they hold inside super....

Financial planning

Australian banking customers are being charged six times more than they think is fair, prompting an eleventh hour call for overcharged NAB customers to join a class actio...

Financial planning

Financial services brands that have lost the trust of the public may struggle to get it back, with consumers “switching off” when they see their ads. ...

Superannuation

Recently introduced penalties are ensuring fewer SMSFs are falling foul of the law, however, there has been a spike in borrowing breaches, new research reveals....

Superannuation

Super funds rounded out last year with higher than expected gains, bringing the five year median growth rate to eight per cent, according to SuperRatings. ...

Financial planning

Non-major lenders dominated the home loan market in January and notched up the highest proportion of home loans since the GFC, mortgage broker AFG revealed....

Financial planning

Certainty around the FOFA reforms is set to provide financial services sector employers with the security to increase staff numbers a new survey reveals....

Superannuation

The domination of industry super funds in the modern award system has left virtually no market for higher performing, lower fee funds, according to the Financial Services...

Financial planning

Business confidence dropped to its lowest level in December 2014 since August 2011, down 14.4 per cent from November to 105.3....

Funds management

Better trading conditions and the lower Australian dollar have seen Macquarie upgrade its results forecast....

Financial planning

WAM Capital offers existing investors a share purchase opportunity....

Superannuation

New survey reveals strong support for at least one-third independent directors on superannuation fund boards....

Financial planning

The big four banks lag behind the smaller ones with a customer satisfaction rate of 67.6 per cent compared to smaller banks’ 72.2 per cent, Roy Morgan research found....

Financial planning

Planners are actively investing client funds in growth assets and making greater use of passive strategies but are calling on more information from fund managers....

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