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Financial planning

Australian Unity and Big Sky Credit Union have announced they will explore and evaluate a potential merger....

Superannuation

Poor management among unlisted property funds needs to be addressed in order for the sector to repair its image problem, according to Centuria Property Funds....

Financial planning

While the soft dollar spotlight has been firmly shone on all-expenses paid trips and lavish gifts given to financial advisers, the Treasury's proposed ban on these paymen...

Funds management

With an increasing number of financial advisory groups offering some form of property advice either through in-house specialists or through a referral agreement, property...

Financial planning

The Institute of Public Accountants has been admitted to the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants....

Editorial

QBE is on target to improve its first half profit, despite the spate of natural disasters....

Funds management

Australian private equity and venture capital returned 7.3 per cent over 2010, outperforming most major relevant benchmarks, according to the Cambridge Associates LLC Aus...

Financial planning

Stockbroking and advisory house BBY has acquired StoneBridge Group....

Financial planning

The mooted penalties that could apply to breaches of components of the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms have drawn criticism from across the industr...

Financial planning

The mooted penalties that could apply to breaches of components of the Government's Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms have drawn criticism from across the industr...

People & Products

Crescent Capital founding partner Andrew McGill will succeed Mark Burgess as chief executive of Treasury Group, commencing 12 July....

Rate the raters

The financial relationships between fund managers and research houses escaped scrutiny in the most recent round of regulatory reforms. But that may not be the case for lo...

Editorial

The Government needs to consider all sides of the debate as it prepares to release the Future of Financial Advice draft legislation, writes Mike Taylor....

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has turned its attention to the inner workings of the investment research industry, including research houses'...

Superannuation

LGsuper has appointed Decimal to help provide an online scaled advice solution for the fund....

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