SFG Australia has announced a 5 per cent increase in net profit after tax, boosted by cost savings from the integration of Snowball Group and Shadforth Financial Group....

AIA Australia has reported a 21 per cent growth in premiums and a 27 per cent growth of total assets for the year ended 30 November 2011....

The popularity of cash products does not seem to revolve solely around investment sentiment anymore. Milana Pokrajac reports....

If Bill Shorten did not already have enough reason to announce appropriate transition periods for the implementation of FOFA and the Stronger Super legislation, he might ...

Perpetual has reported a 25 per cent profit drop but looks to a more positive future....

Portfolio administration firm Praemium has announced a $3.3 million net loss before tax for the first half of the 2011/12 financial year....

In this excerpt from Lonsec’s Australian Equities Large Cap Sector review, Lin Ngin writes the last 12 months have seen unusual trends emerge in the Australian equities l...

Business risk insurance should be a key component of every risk strategy, but only a fraction of companies are properly insured, writes Jason Bamford....

Although financial planners are in for another tough year, the Financial Planning Association's Mark Rantall believes this could be a good time to reflect on how to creat...

Col Fullagar examines the topic of pre-existing exclusion clauses in risk insurance policies....

The Government seems determined to bring on parliamentary debate about the FOFA bills well before the May Budget but, as Mike Taylor reports, Financial Services Minister ...