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Financial planning

The strength of the Australian dollar may be beneficial to clients, but as Janine Mace points out, it also means financial advisers need to think carefully when it comes ...

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Editorial

Financial planners have a bad reputation, but there should be a distinction between 'proper' financial planners and the 'bottom dwellers', writes Michael Dale....

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Financial planning

Aspect Diversified Futures Fund uses a sophisticated process to identify trends in both rising and falling markets and seeks to exploit them for profit. The fund, exclusi...

Editorial

The flood of foreign credit into Australia should make investors rethink their risk exposure, writes Martin Conlon....

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Financial planning

Australians are more likely to be finding it easier to make home loan repayments now than two years ago, according to the latest MFAA/Bankwest Home Finance Index....

Financial planning

Queensland man subject to charges after raising nearly $8 million from investors without holding an AFSL, and generating no documentation or returns....

Editorial

The current environment is delivering high yields and attractive risk-adjusted returns in the corporate bond market. Andrew Lill explores the opportunities for investors ...

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Financial planning

One in three Gen Y prospective first home buyers say they will never be able to afford to get into the property market....

Financial planning

New legislation has prompted concern about the future of margin lending among industry commentators. Yet with confidence that the rebounding share market will stimulate f...

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Financial planning

Matthew McLenaghan explains how to make a bond fund perform when interest rates are rising....

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Financial planning

Stephen Hart and Bill Keogh explain how an anomaly in the term deposit market means investors can increase returns while reducing risk....

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Funds management

Fund managers have a more cautious market outlook due to sovereign risk concerns in Greece and other European countries, according to the latest Investment Manager Outloo...

Financial planning

The FSU has called on the Government to rein in debt-pushing, suggesting one way this could be done is by separating bank workers’ salaries from sales targets....

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Financial planning

Australia will be vulnerable to a second financial crisis if interest rates continue to rise, according to a leading equity strategist....

Financial planning

Janine Mace takes a look at the Australian equities market and finds the future looks good for investors, as long as they tread wisely. ...

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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 1 week ago

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

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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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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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