Features

Financial planners start the year with a reality check

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...

Editorial

Insurance - working out your PECs

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

Editorial

Getting FOFA's timing right

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 ...

Editorial

IOOF net profit result down, but solid

IOOF has reported a six per cent decline in net profit in difficult markets, but is already seeing benefits from the DKN acquisition....

Editorial

Suncorp Group announces profit despite natural disasters

Suncorp Group has announced a $389 million NPAT for the six months to 31 December 2011, with general insurance contributing $162 million despite the impact of natural dis...

Editorial

WHK transformation sees profit hit

WHK has taken a first half profit hit amid volatile markets and a business transformation, but is optimistic about the outlook....

Editorial

Challenger's 'excellent' half-year result

The times suit Challenger as annuities growth translates into record half-year result....

Editorial

Understanding risk in asset allocation: cash, bonds and equities

Elizabeth Moran looks at the broad risk-and-return characteristics of three investment classes: cash, bonds and equities in the Australian market between October 1989 and...

Editorial

Why the outlook for markets has changed

In his market forecast for 2012, Ron Bewley has a stronger sense of positive outcomes in the next 12 months....

Editorial

Superannuation fiddling rubs industry the wrong way

The recent announcement by Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan that he had convened a Superannuation Roundtable seems to thoroughly misunderstand the consequences that go with c...

Editorial

FOFA's missing pieces

Although the process involving the upcoming FOFA reforms commenced a few years ago, the reforms package still looks like an unsolved jigsaw puzzle, writes Pam Roberts....

Editorial

Financial services loses its appetite for recruitment

The financial services industry is slowly losing its recruitment drive as economic and regulatory uncertainties linger. However, while some find it difficult to grow, oth...