INVESTORS
Editorial
In late 2003, I wrote an article which pointed out some of the flaws in the new listed investment companies (LICs) floating at the time, and predicted that investors’ hig...
Financial planning
An Adelaide-based managed investment scheme that allegedly owes at least 78 investors about $56 million has been closed off by an interim order of the Federal Court....
Funds management
Financial advisers are being encouraged to reassess their typically low allocations to direct property following the release of research which highlights the importance o...
Financial planning
Allegations of misleading conduct and mismanagement are behind a class action launched yesterday by 737 investors against AM Corporation founder David Smith and a former ...
Financial planning
A retail funds manager has taken a public line on choice of fund more often associated with the industry funds, with Advance Asset Management claiming consumers could be ...
Financial planning
Australian Agribusiness Group has welcomed this year’s lack of a widely publicised “Top 10 list” of agribusiness tax effective projects....
Policy & Regulation
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has moved to wind up a high yield investment scheme which offered investors 10 per cent monthly returns, as part of c...
Financial planning
Van Eyk Three Pillars, the listed quantitative investor in Australian equities, has shared its high returns with investors by paying a special dividend....
Accounting
A Sydney accountant who operated a financial services business without a licence appeared in court yesterday on seven charges resulting from an investigation by the Austr...
Financial planning
Defaulting investors in agribusiness managed investment group Palandri are set to lose their units as the company commences proceedings against them....
Financial planning
Macquarie has joined a limited number of platform providers that are rebating fund manager volume discounts back to clients....
Editorial
While the short-term outlook for sharemarkets is looking rosy, investors shouldn’t be complacent about looking for alternatives, writes Dominic McCormick....
Editorial
Dominic McCormick expresses some serious concerns in his opinion piece on a new investment fund....
Financial planning
Investors have been urged not to compare super fund performances based on style names after an industry survey found only a tenuous link between the style names funds mar...
Financial planning
The Australian fixed interest sector could deliver negative returns to investors next year as it faces a subdued short to medium-term outlook fuelled by anticipated inter...
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Podcast
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...