The financial services industry is a complex organism, writes Mike Taylor, and tweaking parts of it could lead to the emergence of unforeseen market distortions....

There is a heavy reliance on equities when it comes to investment portfolio construction, but getting the balance right is no easy task, writes Stephen Hart....

Equity Trustees has reported no change in profit for the past financial year but growth in its private clients push....

The bedding down of IOOF’s merger with AWM and its acquisition of Skandia have paid dividends for the group in the form of a record profit....

Treasury Group reported a consolidated profit after tax of $11.68 million for the last financial year, up 136 per cent, while normalised net profit after tax was $10.19 m...

A restructure, joint venture sales and a strong return from general insurance have seen Suncorp significantly lift its profit....

Perpetual appears to have moved beyond the gloomy results it achieved during the global financial crisis to report a 140 per cent increase in profit....

Financial planning dealer group Snowball has reported a 31 per cent profit fall in the year to 30 June, 2010, mostly due to the financial impact of the acquisition of Off...

Challenger believes the times and an ageing population are on its side....

Geoff Frankish takes a fresh look at Australian infrastructure and investor sentiment since the global financial crisis....

Mike Taylor writes that the ACCC's initial veto of NAB's proposed takeover of AXA Asia Pacific failed to acknowledge the most important factor: bank dominance....