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Financial planning
More Australian investors are intending to increase their exposure to overseas assets, according to the latest Certitude Global Investing Intentions Index....
Financial planning
A new ASIC survey reveals investors and consumers are largely sceptical when it comes to the integrity of financial advisers, while some of the other industry gatekeepers...
Funds management
Clestus Weerappah has been sentenced to four years jail over his role in the collapse of property development group Dollarforce Financial Services (DFS) in 2009....
Funds management
Platform flows are improving as the wall of cash breaks down....
Superannuation
ASIC’s SMSF taskforce finds some disturbing features within low-balance SMSFs....
Superannuation
ASIC’s Medcraft claims SMSFs are particularly at risk with respect to hybrid securities....
Financial planning
Mason Stevens has launched a managed account product based on the Magellan Global Equity Model Portfolio. ...
Editorial
The conundrum of low returns sets up a desire to take on greater risks. Taking responsibility and lowering risk during times of poor expected returns makes sense, accordi...
Financial planning
La Trobe Financial to manage trust after GFC setback causes closure....
Financial planning
Japan has embarked upon a bold new experiment to boost its moribund economy using monetary, fiscal and structural measures – the “three arrows” – and investors too will n...
Editorial
How many winners do you need? Richard Skelt from Fidelity explains how investment performance is actually generated and asks whether the concept of ‘batting average’ is a...
Superannuation
State Street Global Advisors has launched an ETF aimed at providing investors with access to international equities whilst also mitigating against what is an increasingly...
Editorial
Investors are flooding back to property, and as they do they might start asking whether direct or listed is the way to go – or perhaps even both. Freya Purnell writes....
Financial planning
Active investment manager RWC has announced the launch of the RWC Global Horizon Fund, based on the presence of recently-recruited specialist Louise Keeling....
Financial planning
ANZ has launched a protected lending product targeting high-end self-managed super funds, wholesale investors and executives with employer-related share exposures....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...