Life insurance premium inflows declined in the 12 months to the end of June despite surges in the group superannuation investment and risk markets, according to figures r...
The life insurance industry has continued with its moves to become more profitable and the news is good for planners. JASON SPITS examines what senior executives are plan...
Rising prices and changes to product design are front of mind in the risk insurance industry, JOHN WILKINSON found....
Disability and trauma claims are still dogging the risk insurance industry, writes JOHN WILKINSON....
The debate over fees and charges preoccupying industry observers over the past year and a half peaked recently with the launch of the Labor Party’s policy platform includ...
IF THERE was one phrase to illustrate what this year’s Top 100 has revealed, it would have to be “steady as it goes”....
Investors are more pessimistic about the current share market outlook than financial advisers, although both have growing expectations of a bear market, according to the ...
THE Merrill Lynch Investment Management group commands more loyalty from its customers than all other fund managers, even though it accounts for less than one per cent of...
The make up of professionals filling the rungs of the Top 100 ladder are changing. JULIE BENNETT investigates exactly who is in the financial planning mix of 2002....
LIFE insurance houses have finally admitted what the funds management industry has known for some time – that third party financial planners hold the reins when distribut...
A psychologist will be provided to clients of a new personal advisory company, Mentor, to increase advisor ability to make the right choice of investment for individual c...
The low level of Australia’s household cash savings could prove a major crisis for the country in the future, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned....
Mutual fund assets in Asia, excluding Japan, are expected to grow to a figure of US$495 billion by 2006, up from US$252 billion at the end of 2001, according to a recent ...
AMP has today placed a trading halt on its shares after they plunged more than 7 per cent yesterday on the back of investor concern about the group’s UK based Pearl opera...
The low level of Australia’s household cash savings could prove a major crisis for the country in the future, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned....
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,...