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Financial planning

Regulation regarding deferred establishment fees will disadvantage non-bank lenders and may eventually reduce competition in the market, according to the Mortgage and Fin...

Tools & guides

Infrastructure assets are now attractively priced and offer the potential for good yields at moderate risk, but the devil is in the detail. AMP Capital's Greg Maclean exp...

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Financial planning

Book sales have increased dramatically over the last financial year as advisers change their business models in response to reform as well as disenchantment with dealer g...

Financial planning

The grim days of the global financial crisis may have passed, but, as Benjamin Levy reports, there is sufficient uncertainty about sovereign debt and the pace of economic...

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Financial planning

Australian investor sentiment has dropped sharply as poor investment returns drive investors into safe haven assets, according to the quarterly ING Investor Dashboard Sen...

Funds management

Hedged global bonds still offer an attractive return for Australian investors, according to PIMCO's head of global product management, David Fisher....

Superannuation

Retirement experts discussed the various income strategies available to retirees at a recent Morningstar conference in Chicago. Josh Charlson reports....

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Funds management

Australian fund managers are broadly negative about the impacts of an RSPT but believe it has already been priced into most mining company shares....

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Editorial

Stephen Hart highlights the four most important things to think about ahead of a recession....

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Financial planning

Perpetual uses market update to reaffirm earnings guidance and points to its non-commissions-based model....

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Financial planning

BT-owned dealer groups Securitor and Magnitude are among the latest to formalise a relationship with a mortgage broker as they seek to expand their potential revenue stre...

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Financial planning

Investors should be prepared for increasingly volatile investment conditions - but that means rewards may be found in relatively vanilla investments, argues Dr Pippa Malm...

Editorial

With the financial crisis effectively over, Benjamin Levy examines the state of the direct property market and looks at the role it should play for investors in the futur...

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Financial planning

The National Information Centre on Retirement Investments has called on the Government to fund an equity release information centre to provide general financial and legal...

Financial planning

Boutique fund managers are battling through a difficult market, but Instreet believes there will always be a demand for customised products....

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

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

3 months ago

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

5 months ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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