The debate over fees and charges preoccupying industry observers over the past year and a half peaked recently with the launch of the Labor Party’s policy platform includ...

Listed financial planning group Fiducian has grown net profits by 14 per cent for the financial year ending June 30, 2002, despite lower than expected net fund inflows th...

Financial services group Snowball has released its preliminary annual results and despite a 538 per cent increase in revenue to $5.24 million, will post an overall loss o...

Challenger International has attributed a 24 per cent rise in year-on-year profits to an increase in sales of annuity and funds management products....

In the last article I discussed what I believe are the limitations to the current approach to asset allocation of much of the financial planning (and funds management) in...

IWL has experienced a 76 per cent, or $6.5 million, increase in operating revenues in the year to the end of June, but ended up with an overall loss of $1.2 million....

Small cap funds have done well in the last year but they are becoming more difficult to access, as GEORGE LIONDIS discovers....

In a recent column, Robert Keavney reignited the risk profiling debate. LISA CHAMBERS argues that planners are legally obliged to understand their client’s risk tolerance...

Fund of funds investment vehicles continue to gain investor dollars and adviser support as each seek easier ways to invest. However, MARK KNIGHT questions whether the fun...

Despite the emphasis placed on the importance of asset allocation, DOMINIC McCORMICK thinks traditional wisdom on what constitutes strategic asset allocation leaves a lot...

Diversification can be as important for investors looking for a regular income stream as it is for those looking for capital growth, writes ROB KEAVNEY....