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A leading academic and dealer group chief has cast serious doubt on the role of risk profiling as a key foundation to financial planning....

Financial planning

Property fund managers need to boost their knowledge of how financial planners think if they are to achieve good distribution of their products, a new report has found....

Financial planning

Members of Generation Y are crying out for advice on financial matters despite lofty aspirations for their financial futures, a discussion forum featuring those aged 18 t...

Editorial

More and more planners chasing consistent returns are happy to blend indexed and non-indexed product. Why? Because it all comes back to the view that out performance invo...

Financial planning

Colonial First State Global Asset Management will make a recommended offer of $418 million to acquire all of the stapled securities in Victorian gas pipeline transmission...

Financial planning

Western Australia property developer Cedar Woods Properties has launched its first managed fund, the Cedar Woods Land Development Fund....

Financial planning

Under a new agreement, Atom Financial Services will be distributing the funds of Pentacle Property Funds Management to the financial planning community....

Financial planning

Two companies affiliated with the embattled Westpoint Group have been served with interim asset freezing orders by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission...

Superannuation

Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are matching fund managers for investment performance, according to a survey by SMSF provider Multiport....

Editorial

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Financial planning

The executive director of the Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners, Peter Johnston, has retracted a number of statements relating to the Challenger Finan...

Editorial

The Centro Properties Group has capped off the 2005-06 financial year by reporting a record distributable operating earnings figure of $295.3 million, representing an inc...

Financial planning

Expectations of reduced returns from Australian listed property compared with previous years have fuelled greater interest in global and hybrid property investment produc...

Financial planning

The Macquarie Financial Services Group has selected nine funds out of a group of 30 to add to the investment menu of its flagship platform product Macquarie Wrap Solution...

Financial planning

This morning’s 0.25 per cent interest rate rise by the Federal Reserve Bank would place further pressure on homeowners’ ability to make ends meet, according to broker Mor...

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