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Thou shalt inherit an empty piggy bank

It's not just the hyena laugh or the eye twitch. A new study has found that parents tend to pass their bad money habits to their children too. A survey of 1,125 Australians conducted by a company that makes money box containers, Money Ed Box, has found ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

A leading academic has challenged the government's four pillar policy and called for a major review of the country's financial system akin to the scale of the 1996-97 Wallis Inquiry. Professor Ian Harper, executive director of the Centre for Business ...

Flatmates to mortgage-mates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2006
Shifting demographics and affordability are forcing young people to re-think their strategy for breaking into the housing market. According to a report published in this month's YourMortgage magazine, in recent years the once clear-cut picture of home ...

Former Westpac rep rips off $500k

A former Westpac Banking Corporation representative has received a permanent ban from providing financial services after being found guilty of misappropriating client money worth around half a million dollars. Former Westpac representative, David Jarrett ...

Self-employed have different banking and investment needs

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2006
Do self-employed people need different types of banking and investment products? Probably, if the statistics from GE Money are to be believed. Self-employed people, refinancing existing loans, and disinterested in paperwork appears to the profile of ...

Profit sharing a win-win for AFS

Advisory group Australian Financial Services (AFS) is growing at a rate of at least 20 practices a year thanks to its highly successful profit sharing model. The Melbourne-based firm has signed up 13 practices since the beginning of the year and AFS ...

Platforms: here today, gone tomorrow

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
New asset consulting frontier Kate Hage 315 Asset consulting has changed so much so that through the sheer volume of new managers, it has become a process of elimination and negative screens, according to key industry delegates. Speaking at yesterday's ...

Select gold up 118 per cent in just 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
Gold fever and the commodities boom has pushed the Select Gold Fund up a staggering 118 per cent in just the last 12 months. This performance surge is 42 percentage points more than the FTSE Gold Mines Index and 71 percentage points more than the Gold ...

Life insurers and 25 AFSL holders under ASIC microscope

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched formal investigations into 25 AFSL holders and will be watching life insurers closely, as a result of its latest license breaches report announced this week. The regulator has ...

Multi-broker trading platform launched by Bourse Data

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
Bourse Data has just launched a platform with a twist, a multi-broker platform that lets investors choose which broker they want to use for their online securities transactions. The platform, Bourse Trade, can already handle equities and options trades ...