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Fund managers have been given the green light to charge varying fees based on investment size by the investment watchdog....

Financial planning

Fees or Commissions – is that the real debate Two things worry me about the fees vs commissions debate. Firstly are we only considering it from our own perspective – hav...

Funds management

The property industry is likely to see longer than expected benefits from the Syd-ney Olympics according to the latest Australian Property Industry (API) survey....

Financial planning

<B>Hockey not swayed by ethics </B>The Federal Financial Services Minister, Joe Hockey’s knock back of a proposal for disclosure of ethical considerations taken by invest...

Funds management

There is “little room for error” left in the Australian funds management industry according to a new report which says the industry is rapidly reaching maturity...

Financial planning

The growth of interest in ethical funds has been well documented but the successful staging of a two day ethical investments conference in Sydney last week confirms this ...

Financial planning

The transition of portfolio assets when changing fund managers is resulting in higher costs and loss of performance for superannuation funds according to Frank Russell tr...

Financial planning

News that Australia’s funds management industry has taken a shine to ethical investment has raised a few eyebrows around the industry. ...

Financial planning

Only one in 50 financial planners does not use the Internet for their business, according to a recent survey....

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has rolled out a multi-media disclosure document in a bid to develop a best-practice model for fund man-agers usi...

Financial planning

The funds management industry should brace itself for an explosion of product launches in the next few years, according to BT Funds Management’s Terry Power....

Financial planning

I was interested to read the article on a new system where financial planners pay to be star rated in a reference database for consumers (“Advisers to pay for star rating...

Funds management

Fund managers around the world are facing a major shake-out, according to one of the world’s biggest financial services groups, Frank Russell....

Funds management

Australia's investment watchdog is still having problems with the transition to Responsible Entities (RE) under the Managed Investments Act....

Financial planning

The funds management industry should brace itself for an explosion of product launches in the next few years, according to BT Funds Management’s Terry Power....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 2 weeks 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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