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Funds management
Offered exclusively through the Macquarie Professional Series, the Winton Global Alpha Fund has once again been awarded the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Ye...
Funds management
The market volatility that characterised much of 2011 proved a key decider in the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year global equities long/short category, wi...
Financial planning
The Colonial First State restructure sees Brian Bissaker depart with the separation of advice and changed reporting lines....
Financial planning
A significant restructure of Colonial First State will see Brian Bissaker leave the company with Marianne Perkovic and Linda Elkins filling key roles....
Tools & guides
How is the ‘bring forward rule’ triggered, and what happens when the $450,000 cap is only partially used at or around the time a client turns 65? Colonial First State's t...
Funds management
Panellists at Morningstar's annual conference agreed the tailored advice model still needed a lot of work, but said strategic asset allocation offered some compromises in...
Financial planning
Financial services players have taken aim at competition concerns and potential conflicts in institutionally owned investment platforms....
Funds management
Macquarie Wrap has gone back-to-back in being rated first in the annual Wealth Insights Platform Service Level Reporting Rankings, with Colonial FirstChoice again rated s...
Financial planning
Colonial First State's FirstChoice platform has reached a milestone, achieving $50 billion in funds under administration....
Financial planning
Lifestyle Financial Services has become the third practice to join Commonwealth Bank-aligned dealer group Financial Wisdom....
Funds management
BT Financial Group now accounts for almost half of the total wrap market, resulting in even more concentration in this space, according to a latest report released by Pla...
Editorial
A patchy economy and global turmoil has left the industry grappling with a jumpy share market and turning to active management in a bid to stave off negative returns. Ben...
Financial planning
The global fixed income sector has suffered a number of fund downgrades due to poor results in the second half of 2011, according to Standard & Poor's (S&P's) latest sect...
Policy & Regulation
While the financial services industry has welcomed the delayed implementation of the FOFA reforms, the eleventh-hour nature of the decision has cost the big institutions ...
Financial planning
ASIC's platforms review has drawn support from a range of stakeholders for proposing providing additional consumer protection via capital adequacy and for placing the spo...
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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...