ANZ Financial Planning will be the first dealer group to pilot a new, online client management solution for financial advisers....
Macquarie has launched a new property fund that will invest in the agricultural sector. However, the fund manager will be buying farms, land and related agricultural buil...
Licensing of people who provide advice on financial services products is not a straight forward subject. Admittedly, the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) bought toget...
Current poor returns from the bond market could signal Australia once again plunging into a recession according to research house Standard & Poor’s....
Fewer than half of active fund managers that have beaten the benchmark in their investment category have achieved positive excess returns as a result of management skill ...
Research house Morningstar has not lifted its ‘avoid’ rating on Colonial First States’ global property securities fund, despite the Commonwealth Bank-owned fund manager a...
Two Victorian men who convinced their clients to roll their superannuation benefits into a self-managed super fund before pumping the money into their own petrol station ...
Financial Planning Association deputy chair Sarah Brennan and industry consultant Tom Collins have spoken openly about their involvement with Westpoint Corporation, as Br...
Solid stocks like infrastructure and financial companies, well researched low-grade bonds and unlisted property trusts have been identified as the best investment classes...
It’s the Chinese year of the dog, and participants in the Australian share market are wondering where the canines lurk as talk of a correction ramps up. But thanks to the...
The structural change experienced by the local listed property trust market has not dulled the attractiveness of the asset class and has enhanced the importance of active...
The Financial Planning Association has confirmed that it is investigating six complaints about its members in relation to the failed Westpoint group....
The managed funds industry finished off 2005 with weaker investment flows in the December quarter, according to the latest Standard & Poor’s Market Share Preliminary Find...
Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has delivered an upbeat assessment of hybrid property products....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...