REAL ESTATE

Funds management

Growing demand from Australian investors for global property exposure has prompted ING Investment Management to launch a locally domiciled global listed property fund....

Financial planning

The financial services industry says the Federal Government went a long way yesterday to arresting fears that any proposed anti-money laundering legislation would heap un...

Financial planning

The recently departed head of Westpac Bank’s in-house financial planners, Justin Greiner, has ended up working for a former boss, taking on the lead distribution role at ...

Funds management

Property yields will remain high in future as the funds available for investment in real estate continue to grow, despite an overall decline in net contributions to super...

Financial planning

Traditional methods of portfolio construction should be abandoned, as they cannot cater for some asset classes such as options, have difficulty accounting for global equi...

Funds management

A day after it enlisted Deutsche Bank’s property team, Perpetual has underscored its commitment to focus more heavily on the real estate sector with news that it will buy...

Financial planning

Australian funds management groups have continued their push into Asia, with both Macquarie Bank and AXA Asia Pacific announcing significant new moves offshore....

Funds management

Indecision by financial planners over how to allocate property to client portfolios under current market conditions was a key motivator for the launch of AMP Capital Inve...

Financial planning

The funds management arm of real estate giant Multiplex has bought 11 supermarkets scattered around provincial New Zealand and in Auckland to add to the other 22 retail, ...

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...

Funds management

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

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

Australia is one of the top ten countries for creating high-net-worth individuals, with 134,000 of us now having investable assets of more than US$1 million excluding hom...

Financial planning

Australian Skandia has dumped Merrill Lynch’s Australian share fund, and made a big initial allocation to global listed property, among menu changes which became availabl...

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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 1 week ago

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

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

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

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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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