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Financial planning

An education savings plan is often a good advice proposition advisers can utilise to attract younger clients, according to new LifePlan head Matt Walsh....

Financial planning

BENJAMIN LEVY reports on the growing use of reverse mortgages to shore up diminishing client wealth....

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Financial planning

Competition grows for long-term deposit accounts....

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Financial planning

Advisers are moving client funds back into equity products and even geared equity products, according to Scott Tully, head of FirstChoice Investments at Colonial First St...

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Financial planning

BRAD NEWCOMBE considers the differences between fixed and floating bonds and how to choose between them in the current market turmoil....

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Financial planning

JONATHAN WU believes China’s economic flight has only just begun....

Funds management

High quality corporate bonds offer Australian investors historically high yields in the short to medium term, despite an anticipated surge in government debt issuance, ac...

Financial planning

Australians are feeling cautiously confident in their ability to service debt as falling interest rates take effect and, according to a Genworth Financial mortgage study,...

Financial planning

Expect to see property investors flush the market after the First Home Owner Boost, writes KRISTY SHEPPARD....

Editorial

Robert Keavney considers the green shoots debate and concludes the economic situation is clearly unclear....

Financial planning

JANINE MACE explores the current love affair with cash, and the risks and benefits of this asset class for investors....

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Editorial

Brad Newcombe considers investors’ options for the best low-risk returns....

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Editorial

An Auditor-General's report has revealed that some Commonwealth Government departments and agencies will incur losses on the back of declining interest rates and bond yie...

Editorial

How safe are cash and bonds? Dominic McCormick examines the state of these asset classes and whether the perception that they are investment safe havens is accurate....

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Financial planning

TPD has become the victim of popular fallacies, and advisers are the best qualified to tackle and dispel them, writes COL FULLAGAR....

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

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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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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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