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Financial planning

The life insurance industry has recorded falls in single premium sales of 12 per cent for the 12 months to the end of June, according to research released by Dexx&r....

Financial planning

Over the last 20 years, direct property, followed by listed property trusts (LPTs), has been the best performing asset class in Australia. But is the tide about to turn? ...

Funds management

Financial Services Partners will rebrand as FSP Group and launch a new funds management firm – FSP Funds Management – over the next month....

Financial planning

The Suncorp Group has offloaded its 53 per cent interest in Hedge Funds Limited (HFL), while Hedge Funds of Australia (HFA) managing director Spencer Young has increased ...

Financial planning

Boutique and employee-owned Australian investment managers may account for as much as 25 per cent of the domestic funds management market by the end of the decade accordi...

Editorial

Hedge funds promised investors they would be the panacea for poor returns, but have they measured up to their promise? Charles Beelaerts reports....

Financial planning

Growth styled managers have ousted their value counterparts as the better performing investment style for the first time in nearly three years according to the latest InT...

Financial planning

Macquarie Equities has rolled out a capital protected international investment fund offering access to investment strategies designed for wholesale investors but with a m...

Financial planning

Research house Assirt has issued a warning for the mortage funds sector claiming it is suffering from capacity constraints and a high weighting towards cash which has res...

Financial planning

Colonial First State’s FirstChoice master trust has cracked $4 billion in invested funds after only 17 months in operation primarily due to generous commissions paid to f...

Financial planning

Markets in August provided growth-oriented superannuation funds with another bumper month of returns, reinforcing the notion that investors should focus on long-term inve...

Financial planning

The continuing impact of the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) on the financial services industry has given a boost to education and compliance services provider Tribe...

Financial planning

Almost every ethical investment fund established over the past three and a half years has failed to gain traction in the domestic market according to new data released by...

Financial planning

The risks of chasing fund manager performance have been highlighted by the revelation in a new study that top-performing retail share funds one year invariably have lackl...

Funds management

Suncorp Metway’s wealth management business, with a 29.3 per cent decline in profit, has tarnished what is otherwise an impressive year’s performance for the 12 months en...

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