Macquarie Funds Management has launched two new global funds covering infrastructure and property that investors will be able to access through wraps and master trusts....
Boutique property fund manager APN Funds Management is bidding to give advisers access to direct property through platforms with the launch of a new fund....
Australian fund managers spend a lot of time and money wooing financial advisers with junkets, increasingly complex products and, of course, much-debated trail commission...
Strong first-quarter growth in investment funds under management has motivated Perpetual Trustees Australia to forecast a 15 per cent rise in operating profit after tax f...
Australian Unity Investments has launched a fixed income product aimed at funding a continued expansion into the retirement living sector by parent Australian Unity Group...
Van Eyk Research has signed its fourth research alliance of the year, partnering with Chant West Financial Services to provide industry super fund ratings to clients....
The launch of reverse mortgage products into the Australian market could offer individuals without significant super savings the opportunity to create an income stream in...
There is a great deal of focus on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) requirements in regards to statements of advice (SOAs). Complying with the...
THERE’S at least one financial planner out there who views the emergence of reverse mortgages as a compliment to financial planners...
Few financial products have a greater potential to tug at Australians’ emotions than reverse mortgages, according to Kieren Dell, executive director of the Senior Austral...
Zurich Financial Services Australia has appointed boutique manager Renaissance Asset Manager to run its specialist listed property securities managed fund, which has more...
Platforms have proliferated and grown to colossal sizes, evolving over time to occupy a space in the financial services landscape in which they have few competitors....
If there’s a constant in the ongoing industry debate over net benefits to super fund members, it is the regularity with which the key players have asked the Australian Se...
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...