PROPERTY

Financial planning

A former Mawson Securities adviser who allegedly defrauded the Queensland company of nearly $500,000 is one of three separate fraudsters to be set upon by the Australian...

Funds management

The Financial Planning Association is sticking to its position that real estate agents should be regulated by a separate regime that picks up the best elements of Financi...

Financial planning

Absolute return fund manager HFA Asset Management has attracted over four times as much money into the second instalment of its capital protected ‘Octane’ fund of funds a...

Policy & Regulation

Australians are likely to make errors in their tax returns and miss out on deductions, with omission of interest and failure to claim for depreciation on investment prope...

Financial planning

Australian equities bounced back in May, regaining most of what they lost in April and keeping the S&P/ASX 300 above 20 per cent for the financial year to date....

Funds management

ING Investment Management has appointed Justin Blaess as listed property and infrastructure director, effective from today....

Funds management

Financial advisers are being encouraged to reassess their typically low allocations to direct property following the release of research which highlights the importance o...

Funds management

BT Financial Group has reduced the US exposure in its retail global property fund from 100 per cent to 69 per cent, opening up to European and Asian markets as they in tu...

Financial planning

Diversifying into international property would have delivered Australian investors five times the return for half the risk compared to an all-domestic portfolio during th...

Financial planning

Colonial First State has outsourced half of the listed property trust portfolio in its balanced fund to Pengana Capital....

Financial planning

A new listed property security debuts on the Australian Stock Exchange this morning, with Charter Hall Group taking its property trust and attached management company to ...

Financial planning

Concern that in-house products were too heavily represented on Citigroup Asset Management’s corporate super master trust has prompted the fund manager to appoint the spec...

Financial planning

In a pre-choice attempt to attract do-it-yourself (DIY) superannuation investors, ING has halved minimum investment amounts and cut management expense ratios (MERs) for i...

Financial planning

Farmers are ill-served by a financial planning industry still based around the pay-as-you-earn mentality, according to the head of a new team of specialist agribusiness p...

Funds management

Melbourne-based boutique MPG Funds Management has launched a $48.8 million retail property trust....

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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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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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