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Financial planning

IOOF has reduced the investment fee of the IOOF Multi Series Balanced Trust by 10 basis points to 0.55 per cent, and increased the trust's exposure to active management....

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Financial planning

Australian Ethical Investment has appointed current director Steve Newnham as its executive director of business development....

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Financial planning

Australian Ethical Investment has appointed current director Steve Newnham as its executive director of business development....

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Financial planning

With widespread industry concern surrounding the proposed changes, all eyes remain firmly locked on the progress of the FOFA reforms as we move into 2012 and ever-closer ...

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Financial planning

Ongoing consolidation remained a central theme for the financial services industry in 2011, with big names such as Lonsec, Count Financial, DKN Financial Group and ING In...

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Financial planning

Lonsec has lost its research contract with Australian Unity Personal Financial Services, as the firm selects Morningstar as its new research provider....

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Financial planning

You are making the final decision as to whether to recommend an international equities fund - what is the one last question you would ask (or ask again) of the fund manag...

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Financial planning

Lonsec has again given Mercer Multi-Manager Funds a highly recommended rating....

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People & Products

Lonsec has made further appointments to its research team, including a specialist quantitative analyst and a senior consultant...

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People & Products

Former Lonsec head of ratings - managed funds Richard Everingham has been appointed to the newly-created role of manager - research strategy....

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Editorial

Are multi-asset funds the next big thing, deja vu - or perhaps a bit of both? Janine Mace reports....

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Financial planning

In the short term, we often see dramatic differences in the performance of hedged vs unhedged international equities portfolios. How much (if any) of an international equ...

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Editorial

In the short term, we often see dramatic differences in the performance of hedged vs unhedged international equities portfolios. How much (if any) of an international equ...

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Editorial

Given the dichotomy between high growth emerging markets and low-growth developed markets, should all portfolios be 'overweight' to emerging market equities? If so, overw...

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Editorial

This month PortfolioConstruction Forum asked the research houses: Given the dichotomy between high growth emerging markets and low-growth developed markets, should all po...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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