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Fin planners need to re-think succession strategy

Accountancy and advisory firm HLB Mann Judd is calling for financial planning practice owners to re-assess their business approach if they want to maximise the value of their firm come retirement. Bob Neill, partner, corporate finance financial services ...

No conflict, more interest on MLC

Amid industry calls to curb conflicts of interest when giving advice, MLC will fundamentally change how it values an adviser's business from a model based on a set formula favouring in-house products to one based on an independent market valuation. ...

Navigator names its top five Aussies

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
Navigator Research has revealed its top five Australian equity funds and has included three more boutique managers this year. The top five funds from a pool of 31, all receiving a five star rating, were Ausbil Australian Active Equity Fund, Barclays ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
... its annual production report. On Friday, the Australian stock market closed lower, with concern over a widely expected interest rate rise again hitting banking stocks. The S&P/ASX200 index slipped back below the 5000 mark, dropping 49.5 points to 4958.3 ...

Interest rate rise bad news for super contrib increase proposals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
So much for the campaign to boost national savings, as interest rates rise, inflation jumps, petrol price rises and surging cost of bananas push most middle-income consumers backwards. Analysis just released by financial information provider Infochoice.com.au ...

AMP caught on conflicts

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
... regulator for giving 300 clients unnecessary or inadequate super switching advice and having inadequate conflicts of interest procedures in place. Only months after the regulator's shadow shopping exercise threw the whole advice industry into turmoil ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2006
... Reserve's Beige Book of regional economic conditions, which reinforced the view that the Fed could soon end its cycle of interest-rate hikes. But the late afternoon gains faded by the closing bell. The Dow Jones industrial average dipped 1.20 points ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
... due to release the June quarter consumer price index data today, with the figures expected to seal the deal for another interest rate hike at next week's Reserve Bank of Australia policy meeting. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed stronger ...

Cash becomes king with inflation on the up

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... Oliver predicts inflation will be calculated at around 2.75 per cent, which he says is at the "top of the range" and an interest rate hike would then push the cash rate out to around 6 per cent. The impact for fund managers then becomes the short to ...

Aussie women feeling the pinch: ipac

The interest rate rise, recent stockmarket correction and high petrol costs have made women in Australia more 'financially insecure' than they were three months ago, according to the latest quarterly ipac Financial Security Index released this week. ...