Financial services job prospects for the next three months are the grimmest seen for some time after the events of September 11, figures from the latest TMP Worldwide job...
The US economy will bounce back early next year and is showing some signs of strengthening already according to Putnam Investments senior vice president Gerald Colleary....
Macquarie Investment Management has given its diversified balanced funds a more conservative tilt after conducting a wide-ranging review into the structure of the funds....
Australian firm ObjectMastery is shrugging off the downturn in the funds management business in the UK with its Transact wrap account receiving inflows of about $375,000 ...
Former National Asset Management (NAM) chief investment officer Stephen Hiscock has returned to funds management as head of his own boutique operation in Melbourne, after...
Challenger has launched a master trust featuring a range of boutique managers specialising in Australian equities....
Australia’s pooled fund managers had more than $4 billion wiped off their bottom line in the first quarter of this financial year as the September 11 tragedy in the US pl...
Investors are bullish about increasing their exposure to the Australian sharemarket, despite the low-growth conditions affecting economies and share markets world wide, a...
Life insurance inflows grew by five per cent in the 12 months to the end of June, buoyed by a thriving individual superannuation investment market according to the latest...
The Australian managed fund industry is bracing itself for the repercussions of the terrorist attacks in the US as investors respond to the crisis by looking for safe hav...
ANZ has increased its share of online share trading company, E*Trade to almost 31 per cent....
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We’ve been called the lucky country. For a while we aspired to be the smart country. Are we now at risk of becoming the country that never retires?...
Claims management has been a growing problem for life companies but as Mike Taylor reports the issue has been identified and action taken to reverse the trend....
The life industry has identified what the managed funds industry has long known, distribution is critical. Alexandra Cain examines how life companies will stake their cla...
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,...