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Funds management

A well-diversified portfolio across asset classes will be key to maintaining investment returns as the Fed tapers quantitative easing. ...

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Financial planning

BNP Paribas will make a voluntary contribution of $1 million to financial literacy projects after its EU was accepted by the regulator....

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Financial planning

Financial markets will continue to be torn between the improving global economy and concerns about policy, an investment manager believes. ...

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Financial planning

Australian business confidence showed signs of weakening across all states in November following strong gains in the months after the Federal election, according to the l...

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Superannuation

Generation Y ignorant on superannuation despite efforts to educate consumers...

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Editorial

What are the types of inflation-plus products that will resonate with a wide variety of different clients to help them achieve the financial outcomes they want? A Money M...

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Financial planning

Regulator spends big but earns its keep for Commonwealth...

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Financial planning

A former Bell Potter Securities adviser has been jailed for one year after his original suspended sentence was quashed following an appeal. ...

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Superannuation

Administration technology is helping drive down costs and forcing consolidation in the SMSF sector....

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Financial planning

Investor worries about financial markets are under control while market return expectations have jumped, writes Recep Peker....

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Financial planning

A soundly-based adviser/client relationship offering real value will ultimately withstand clients’ disappointment with negative fluctuations on the share market, writes R...

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Editorial

In May, the Federal Reserve signalled its intent to taper unconventional policy easing. Andrew Dowie explores the reasons behind this decision and outlines what it means ...

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Editorial

Too much money chasing too much risk for too little ultimate return? Or a reasonable response to an unprecedented situation? Olivia Albrecht, Michael Story and John Valtw...

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Funds management

Investors have been urged to drown out pre-election market speculation that puts logical, long-term investment choices at risk....

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Editorial

Count Financial’s Michael Beer has been awarded this year’s BlackRock/PortfolioConstruction Forum Scholarship for the CIMA designation. ...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 1 week ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

4 months 2 weeks ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

6 months 2 weeks ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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ASIC has banned a former NSW adviser from providing advice for 10 years for investing at least $14.8 million into a cryptocurrency-based scam. ...

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