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Financial planning

Older planners who have been deferring their retirement plans are putting their businesses up for sale as markets improve, according to Forte Asset Solutions director Ste...

Superannuation

AMP’s Philip LaGreca explores the key considerations for SMSF trustees investing in overseas property....

Superannuation

Falling interest rates could force Australian superannuation funds to boost allocations to alternative assets to enhance investment returns....

Editorial

AMP Capital's Michael Price explains why retirees should consider Australian equities for their income needs....

Editorial

Zurich's Angus Crennan argues that traditional defensive assets are no longer delivering the desired results. So, what is the future of the current “safe havens”?...

Financial planning

Australia is ahead of many developed markets when it comes to the education of its financial planners, according to CFA Institute managing director, Asia Pacific, Paul Sm...

Financial planning

Apostle Asset Management has this week announced new mandates that have increased fund flows into the Apostle Loomis Sayles Credit Opportunities Fund and the Apostle Loom...

Financial planning

One in five first homebuyers is now aged 40 or over, according to a Mortgage Choice survey of 1000 Australians who plan on buying their first home in the next two years....

Life/Risk

Buying a property presents an ideal time for clients to consider their insurance and estate planning needs, according to Smartline's Joe Sirianni....

Financial planning

In protecting their capital in retirement, investors need to consider the concentration of risk in any new investment strategy they take on, according to Wingate Asset Ma...

Funds management

Companies need to understand that the change in the world economy is structural rather than cyclical, says Schroders head of Australian equities Martin Conlon....

Funds management

A structural change in investor attitudes means fund managers are now competing in a "savings pool" rather than an "investment pool", according to BT Investment Managemen...

Editorial

Perpetual’s Matt Sherwood explains why recent central bank stimulus has boosted investor sentiment but not solved any of the world's structural problems. ...

Editorial

Chris Selth says it is vital investors understand the structural changes taking place and the impact it will have on their portfolio management....

Financial planning

Sixty-six per cent of Australian mortgage holders believe they could probably get a better deal from another lending source, according to new research released by Ernst &...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

5 months ago

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

5 months ago

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

7 months 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. ...

4 weeks ago

The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

1 week 3 days ago

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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