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Financial planning

Schroders Investment Management named Fund Manager of the Year at the 2009 Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year Awards....

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Financial planning

An online tool has been launched to enable advisers to build their clients risk-rated agribusiness portfolios....

Superannuation

There are still a number of legal issues that need to be resolved by the ATO and Treasury in relation to borrowing within SMSFs, and these grey areas represent a potentia...

Funds management

Many direct property managers blame the government guarantee for the negative impact on their businesses, and will now change the way they market themselves to investors ...

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Editorial

Everyone agrees it is difficult to market time and there’s no point in trying to pick the bottom of the market. Yet every second conversation in the markets today revolve...

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Financial planning

There’s still more to say when it comes to forecasts, timing the market and financial advisers, says MICHAEL DALE....

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Superannuation

CRAIG DAY considers whether trustees of an SMSF can intentionally acquire a residential property from a related party of the fund....

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Funds management

Colonial First State Property's decision to revalue the assets within its Commonwealth Property Office Fund has seen an 11.9 per cent decline in book value....

Financial planning

Margin lending can reap rewards for investors when times are good, but can prove disastrous in bear markets. LUCINDA BEAMAN finds out what makes up a successful margin le...

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Financial planning

Couples should be aware of new laws relating to de facto relationships, writes NABIL WAHHAB....

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Editorial

Notwithstanding that the valuation of unlisted assets held by superannuation funds has been an issue for at least six to nine months, the Australian Prudential Regulation...

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Editorial

Increased provisions to counter property exposure in NSW and Queensland....

Financial planning

The government subsidies being given to first home owners, at a time when interest rates are low and unemployment is on the rise, could be adding to an already heavy debt...

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Funds management

Global real estate investment trusts (REITs) trading at 20 per cent discounts to net asset value as a result of fall....

Funds management

GDI Property Group has launched a fund to raise $48.5 million to purchase a premium grade office building located in the heart of the Adelaide CBD....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

3 weeks 5 days ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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