Niche Marketing and defining your perfect client

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Niche Marketing “When I first started my financial planning business I had a dream of being all things to all people.” “I thought I’d be helping a carpenter on Monday

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Australian Mortgage Funds Continue To Suffer Redemption Pressure

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Funds in Standard & Poor’s Fund Services’ Australian Fixed Interest – Mortgages rated peer group have all continued to deliver monthly income distributions and capital stability, but most are experiencing

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Who do you trust with your money? Money matters top of mind for Australians this week

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Financial Planning Week 23-29 May 2011 kicks off today with the CEO of Australia’s peak professional financial planning body, the Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) Mark Rantall, calling for all Australians to

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RBA minutes: rates on hold for now,foreign central bank investment on the rise

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Lending finance; RBA Board minutes Lending rebounds, albeit from a low base. Total lending finance rose by 7.7 per cent in March after sliding by 5.7 per cent in February. Encouragingly

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Asia’s dividend ‘sweetspot’ continues to yield

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Below is a market comment from Jason Pidcock, head of the Asian Equities desk at Newton, part of BNY Mellon Asset Management, on the outlook for equity income investing in

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Principal Global Investors Central Bank Research May 2011

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Principal Global Investors’ Central Bank Research for May 2011 carefully examines the trends across the US Federal Reserve (Fed) bank and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The outlook explores

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Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey March 2011

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To get a closer insight into where SMSF trustees invest, Multiport regularly undertakes an analysis of our SMSF’s investments to look at the up to date asset allocation and investment

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Managers Take Different Approaches To Address Mortgage Fund Liquidity With Mixed Outcomes, says S&P

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services’ rated nine mortgage fund products as part of its Australian Fixed Interest -Mortgages sector review. The funds included six conventional mortgage funds, two hybrid funds,

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S&P Three-Star ‘NEW’ Rating for Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today assigned its three-star ‘NEW’ rating to the Australian Unity Diversified Property Fund, managed by Australian Unity Property Funds Management Ltd. In September 2010, Australian

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Zenith: alternative research products in high demand

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Twelve months ago Zenith Investment Partners Pty Ltd (Zenith) acknowledged the need to boost its market research offering with the establishment of the Alternatives Research division to be headed by accomplished investment

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