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Financial planning

Financial advice is seeing appeal from younger investors with deVere Group seeing a 54% jump year-on-year in enquiries from under-30s. ...

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Funds management

Despite the average Australian equity fund returning 41% over the last five years, fears of underperformance and hidden fees are the biggest challenges for firms to dispe...

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Funds management

Investors integrating ESG data into their process can mistakenly conflate ESG scores in practice with the more familiar financial quality metrics....

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Funds management

Many investors are getting their company valuations wrong as they focus on pricing in earnings growth expectations at normal levels, according to Lazard Asset Management....

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Funds management

The Australian Securities Exchange has failed to protect the rights of investors, according to fund manager Allan Gray....

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Funds management

Given the extreme valuations attributed to key growth stocks, and the likelihood that interest rates have bottomed, Maple-Brown Abbott argues that value is set for a peri...

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Funds management

Amid whispers of a crisis in the financial markets, Lonsec has suggested that investors who avoid herd-like selling can often protect themselves in times of crisis and ev...

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Financial planning

Investors could soon train their brains to resist the urge to hold onto bad investments with a new program developed by Monash University researchers. ...

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Funds management

The State Street Investor Confidence Index has declined by 7.4 points to 94.3 in August....

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Funds management

Investors are showing increased interest in China’s onshore bond markets, according to PIMCO. ...

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Superannuation

The latest SuperRatings data shows a steady trend toward more defensive assets as super members get older, reflecting the gradual shift in asset allocation determined by ...

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Financial planning

A research house has warned Australian investors about the hazards of overseas property investment....

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Funds management

Sophisticated or wholesale investors looking to invest together through one legal entity should consider using a bare trust, the Fold Legal has recommended....

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Superannuation

Cash is still king for SMSF investors but there are clear signs of diversification, according to the latest Australian Taxation Office data....

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Funds management

New research has pointed to the degree to which market uncertainty has created a gold opportunity for fund managers to go direct to investors....

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

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Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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Jasmin Jakupovic

How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

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A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

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The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

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