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Financial planning

The Financial Industry Complaints Service has undertaken to respond to concerted criticism from within and without the financial services industry over its performance an...

Funds management

Financial Wisdom has entered into a strategic partnership with Alliance Property Finance to give the clients of real estate group Hocking Stuart access to its financial a...

Editorial

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Editorial

So much has been written of Australians’ hearty appetites to endure debt in pursuit of property, that an argument that leverage is also a popular mechanism in the equity ...

Financial planning

AMP financial planner Harry Moustakas CFP has won the NSW wealth accumulation category of the Financial Planning Association’s inaugural Value of Advice Awards....

Superannuation

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Financial planning

SAITeysMcMahon has taken the first steps towards a float next year....

Financial planning

Boutique property fund manager MacarthurCook has reported an 81 per cent increase in revenues for the 2005-06 financial year....

Financial planning

The promoter of an illegal early release superannuation scheme has been ordered to forfeit property valued at over $5 million to the Commonwealth as a result of charges b...

Superannuation

Tax changes next year to superannuation will favour commercial property investments in self-managed superannuation funds....

Editorial

A net profit of $7 million by its financial planning arm, including Genesys Wealth Advisers, has helped Challenger lift its group net profit by 12.3 per cent to $134.3 mi...

Editorial

Allco Finance Group, which includes the former Record Investments, has increased funds under management to $4.3 billion at the same time as announcing a net profit of $96...

Financial planning

Property owners have cooled on the idea of withdrawing housing equity to finance personal expenditure, a report from the Reserve Bank of Australia has found....

Financial planning

An ongoing deterioration in the equity risk premium will require retail investors to “temper investment return expectations and adopt a more creative stance to eke out po...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has made a number of orders against Bridgecorp Finance in relation to significant concerns regarding the company’s fi...

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