Strong performance by IOOF’s funds management arm, Perennial Investments, has boosted the financial services group’s half year results....

Promina’s financial services division has contributed $132 million of the group’s $458 million profit for 2004, although the wealth management businesses chipped in just ...

Iress Market Technology has been buoyed by strong revenue growth from its Xplan financial planning software business to lift its net profit by 3.3 per cent to $16.09 mill...

Switzerland-based insurance giant Zurich Financial Services has reported a 29 per cent increase in net income for 2004 despite the impact of “extraordinary catastrophes” ...

Insurance and wealth management giant AMP today dished out a $750 million booty to long-suffering shareholders, having posted a consolidated bottom line profit of close t...

Count Financial reported a better than anticipated $4.99 million half year after tax profit today, and immediately upscaled its forecasts for the remainder of the year....

Shareholders in listed financial planning business Count Financial have been given good news for the second time in a week, with the group announcing that it predicted fi...

The labels ‘value’ and ‘growth’ are simplifications of styles which are much more complex, writes Robert Keavney....

Retail investors are diving into option trading, writes Dominic McCormick. But will they be out of their depth when markets take a plunge?...

A year is a long time in funds management – and even some of our investment experts were surprised by the way markets, asset classes and investment vehicles gained or wan...

While the short-term outlook for sharemarkets is looking rosy, investors shouldn’t be complacent about looking for alternatives, writes Dominic McCormick....