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Funds management

High yields being delivered to investors from the ASX20 will stymie the growth of the country’s leading listed businesses, a fund manager believes....

Funds management

APRA chairman, Wayne Byres, warns that investment products with higher than average costs are going to have to justify them with better returns....

Financial planning

As a pure investment house, BTIM believes asset management firms are steering towards providing more solutions than just beta products, as investors demand more income in...

Tools & guides

Rob Hay looks at how using ASX-listed self-funding instalment warrants could help pre-retirees build a tidy nest egg in a low interest rate environment....

Financial planning

Almost half of Australian households would have enough income to last them only three months or less if the main income earner were to lose their job. ...

Financial planning

ABA report looks at house price influences and state of household finances....

More than half of British baby boomers over 50 are looking to spend retirement in Australia in order to escape UK’s pension crisis....

Financial planning

Australia has taken a different view to the rest of the world on the importance of interest rates, and fear a rise could mean huge risks to global markets in 2015....

Financial planning

Australia has taken a different view to the rest of the world on the importance of interest rates, and fear a rise could mean huge risks to global markets in 2015....

Financial planning

Financial planners should be actively engaging with clients at present to address portfolio return expectations which will need to cover expected long term muted equity a...

Financial planning

A quarter of the generation Y group prefer going to friends and family for financial advice than professionals. ...

Editorial

With forecasts of volatility on the horizon, asset allocation may need to be revisited in 2015, David Bryant writes. ...

Funds management

Interest in international markets has continued to rise with many investors determined to shift into those sectors in the next three months according to research conducte...

Financial planning

Money Management webinar poll reveals planner caution amid economic uncertainty....

Editorial

While considered foreboding by traditional investors, volatility in global markets is music to the ears those in the alternative space, Janine Mace writes. ...

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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 1 week 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. ...

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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...

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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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