INVESTMENT TRENDS

Superannuation

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Financial planning

AMP Capital Investors has made its first serious foray into the retail market with the launch of four open ended funds through its Private Clients channel....

Superannuation

The latest AMP Capital/Investment Trends SMSF Investor Report has revealed compliance is now clearly the number one challenge being faced by people running their own supe...

Financial planning

Colonial First State, Commsec, Macquarie and Leveraged Equities were the big winners in a margin loan market that showed no signs of cooling off last year....

Superannuation

The Federal Opposition is calling for tougher regulation and clearer disclosure of SMSFs following the release of ATO figures on asset values and fees charged in SMSF acc...

Superannuation

Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...

Financial planning

Clients of financial planners are investing more of their assets according to their planner’s recommendations, with 88 per cent rating the overall quality of the service ...

Financial planning

Coin Software was the top ranking financial planning software and IWL’s VisiPlan had the fastest rate of enhancement in 2005, according to an independent competitive repo...

Superannuation

Product designers will welcome a survey’s discovery that most people establish self-managed superannuation funds for greater control of their investments, rather than for...

Financial planning

Financial planners believe that managed funds research houses should provide more information on market trends and institutional ownership is a conflict of interest, acco...

Financial planning

In a complete reversal of prevailing investment trends, international shares are on the rebound and growth managers have come back against value managers, according to th...

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ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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