Ipac Securities has entered the South African market with the purchase of a 50 per cent stake in the unit trust business of Brait SA....
Support for a compulsory retirement savings system in New Zealand continues to gain ground according to the latest SaverPulse survey....
FlexiPlan managing director Sue Thomas has sold her 20 per cent stake in the business to MLC and stepped down as managing director....
Australians are most likely to choose a fund managers based on a recommendation, usually from a financial planner or family member, rather than advertising, a new ASSIRT/...
Listed property trusts have lost the gloss that saw them shine through 1998. But, as Peter Lavelle reports, a downturn in the market is also a clear buy signal....
Australia's managed funds industry is poised to break through the $500 billion for the first time....
Westpac Financial Services (WFS) has recorded another huge rise in net profit, up 43.5 per cent to $75.2 million for the six months to March 1999....
The term life insurance market has taken a nosedive following meteoric growth in the mid 1990s. According to the latest Rice Kachor Research market share report, the term...
Austock has boosted its exempt market business with Esanda to offer up to $5.4 billion of fixed interest through debentures and unsecured notes through an ini-tial listin...
Self managed super funds are continuing to go through boom times. With the lead up to June 30, an unprecedented number of self-managed super funds are being es-tablished....
Australia's $380 billion superannuation industry has been pinpointed as one of the fastest growing retirement fund assets in the world by a new report. Australia joins Ja...
Life and superannuation industries' are outsourcing 20 per cent more than they did two years ago, according to a new study. And it appears the strong growth will continue...
Tower Corporation's long march towards demutualisation is almost over, following an overwhelming member vote in favour of the concept and the withdrawal of a fi-nal appea...
Life insurers are continuing to do it tough on income protection products according to a report to be released at presentations by Gerling Global next week. The report, M...
US investors are flocking to index fund managers in droves. In the first three months of this year, Vanguard, America's second biggest mutual fund company, took in almost...
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,...