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Platypus Long Only Australian Equity fund was the top performing Australian share fund manager in 2006, returning 39.4 percent for the year, compared to a median one-year...
Financial planning
Alarming new research has revealed that one in four Australians with a mortgage would no longer be able to afford their home loan if interest rates increased by just 1 pe...
Financial planning
Australian superannuation funds are expected to deliver another year of strong performance on the back of three years of double-digit returns, according to AMP Capital In...
Life/Risk
The Insurance Ombudsman has reported a significant increase in the number of disputes between consumers and general insurance providers requiring internal resolution....
Funds management
Citing a shrinking pool of securitisation opportunities in the Australian market and the growing attraction of property trusts in international markets, MLC has increased...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought orders from the Federal Court of Australia for the winding up of several Melbourne-based investment scheme...
Funds management
The Asian equity market excluding Japan is the asset class that will deliver the strongest returns in the coming year, according to the chief economist of AMP Capital Inv...
People & Products
AMP, Tower, ING, Mercer, ASB and AXA have emerged as the six investment companies appointed to act as default providers for New Zealand’s national KiwiSaver retirement in...
Financial planning
Financial planners’ performance has improved over the past two to three years, according to 28 per cent of Australians surveyed in the fifth annual Confidence in Corporat...
Financial planning
There has been no slowing in the growth of retail managed funds in Australia, according to the latest data released this week by actuarial firm Plan for Life....
Financial planning
The majority of Australians want their superannuation funds to be more influential in the corporate governance, social and environmental practice standards of the compani...
Superannuation
A survey of investor sentiment conducted by the Investment and Financial Services Association shows a high level of importance is being placed on retirement savings, a la...
Editorial
Tower Australia has posted a full-year profit figure for the year ended September 30, 2006, of NZ$48.7 million, which represents an increase of 45 per cent on the 2005 re...
Financial planning
The Investment and Financial Services Association will this week release the results of research revealing a distinct improvement in consumer sentiment towards financial ...
Financial planning
Challenger Financial Services Group has sold 39.3 million Class A securities from its Challenger Infrastructure Fund to a UK-based company....
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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...