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Pengana Capital is yet to reach the $30 million cut-off for its scheduled mid-month listed investment company launch - Pengana Managers - despite the passing of its deadl...

Superannuation

The 200,000 Australians reaching retirement age this year are being urged to postpone hanging up their boots to take advantage of superannuation and tax breaks set to kic...

Financial planning

Asset consulting firm InTech Research has further rejigged its senior personnel ranks with the creation of a new head of product and marketing role and the appointment of...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is continuing to pursue Macquarie Towns Financial Services director John Michael Higgins, after yesterday call...

Financial planning

A former director of the troubled hospitality industry Employees Productivity Award Superannuation Fund has been sentenced to three years jail-term by a Queensland Distri...

Financial planning

A former Godfrey Pembroke financial adviser has pleaded guilty in the Tasmanian Supreme Court to embezzling millions of dollars of client investment assets to fund his ou...

Financial planning

A former Securitor Financial Group and Financial Wisdom adviser has been committed to stand trial over allegations of dishonesty and improper behaviour stemming from an A...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has netted its fourteenth promoter of the failed Wattle Scheme following the sentencing of a Brisbane-based di...

Financial planning

Private Portfolio Managers (PPM) has put the launch of its listed investment company (LIC) - PPM Investments - on hold due to market saturation and growing negative inves...

Financial planning

Ten AMP Capital Investors’ funds have been placed ‘On Hold’ as a precautionary measure by rating house Assirt Research in light of three recent key departures within its ...

Funds management

Russell Investment Group has enhanced its multi-style/multi-manager Australian Shares Fund with the inclusion of an aggressive fund option and appointing five managers to...

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research is steadily expanding resources within its research and iRate online desktop tool divisions with the announcement of two new appointments today....

Financial planning

Aurora Funds Management has signed a distribution deal with UBS Investment Bank to take its tax-effective Protected Geared Investment product (PGI) to brokers and financi...

Financial planning

AMP has revamped its fledgling non-super AMP Flexible Lifetime Investments product, which was launched in June 2003, by expanding the offering to include 47 different inv...

Financial planning

Coin Financial Software’s foray into the financial planning software market is gathering pace with a number of dealer groups signing up to its flagship offering Strategy ...

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