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Superannuation assets rose 3.2 per cent to reach just shy of $550 billion at the end of the September quarter 2003, according to the Australian Prudential Regulation Auth...

Financial planning

Australian Financial Services (AFS), which has been without a full-time managing director since August, will complete a full strategic review of the group’s operations by...

Editorial

While speaking at the FPA’s annual convention, Roger Gibson made a convincing case for asset allocation diversification – but left Dominic McCormick uncomfortable with so...

Financial planning

It appears that employees within the Australian financial services industry can breathe easier after the release of the latest quarterly TMP Worldwide Job Index, though t...

Financial planning

There’s a new man at the helm of Invesco and he has some very definite plans for the group. John Wilkinson reports....

Financial planning

Growth-oriented superannuation funds are on track to record their best calendar year since 2000, according to InTech Financial Services senior consultant, Andrew Korbel....

Editorial

Robert Keavney cautions against forgetting the laws of financial markets when investing in residential property....

Editorial

Financial forecasting is so often wrong, says Robert Keavney, that it is about as useful as reading tea leaves....

Financial planning

A recent survey has shown that while the majority of investors turn to professionals for advice beyond publicly available information they may not be getting what they pa...

Financial planning

Socially responsible investment (SRI) managers have performed better over the past five years than has generally been appreciated, according to a study conducted by AMP H...

Financial planning

Retail investor interest in protected margin loans has now surpassed $1 billion according to the Reserve Bank of Australia....

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services will allocate 25 per cent of funds flowing into its soon-to-be-launched Boutique Australian Share Fund to 452 Capital. The move allows inves...

Financial planning

The good times appear to be rolling again for Australian and international share managers according to the latest data released by InTech Financial Services....

Financial planning

How well do the Australian and New Zealand life insurance markets stack up against each other? Mike Taylor investigates....

Financial planning

The life insurance industry had gone off the rails. But, as Jason Spits writes, fortunes are slowly turning as it returns to its core competencies....

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