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Merrill Lynch Mercury Asset Management hopes to attract $50 million per fund in the medium term for its “Professional Investor” suite of mezzanine priced funds....

Financial planning

In the US, it pays to be a fund manager who specialises in international funds, works for a mutual fund company and lives in New York. ...

Financial planning

Financial planners may have a far higher success rate than most other small businesses, but there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Zilla Efrat asks some of the ind...

Funds management

Macquarie Investment Management is to open up its private equity fund of funds MAIT (Macquarie Alternative Investment Trust) to retail in-vestors for the first time in ea...

Financial planning

Six former RetireInvest staffers have joined Money Matters Financial Solutions....

Financial planning

Question: Who is your target market? Why?...

Financial planning

All four major banks have accelerated their activities in private banking in recent times, yet they consider this area still to be in its infancy in Australia. ...

Financial planning

Permanent Trustee Company is planning a major push into financial planning and investment advice....

Financial planning

Financial planning groups are looking to beef up adviser numbers as the push to gain critical mass continues unabated....

Financial planning

Do you offer a housing loan service to your clients? Why/Why not?...

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch has made its much-anticipated first move into distribu-tion by recruiting financial planners as part of a plan to reposition itself as a total financial sol...

Financial planning

As banks become more sophisticated in their approach to database mining, they are increasingly segregating their wealthiest clients for special attention. John Wilkinson ...

Financial planning

Australians are only slightly more likely to seek the services of a financial planner when looking for financial guidance than an accountant, family member or bank manage...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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

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

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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 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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ASIC has issued a warning to financial advisers to ensure they are complying with client consent requirements when entering into ongoing fee arrangements....

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