EQUITY MARKETS

Financial planning

The managed funds industry has recorded positive inflows for the first time this year after total assets under management rose to $670 billion at the end of June, a $37 b...

Financial planning

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have accepted enforceable undertakings from AM Corpo...

Life/Risk

The long term profit outlook for the life insurance market will remain poor for the immediate future as it remains linked to the low performance of equity markets and sad...

Financial planning

Acadian Asset Management senior vice-president Rick Barry says the market focus for the second half of 2003 will be on value stories that have potential to outperform in ...

Financial planning

Want to make more money in financial planning? Take the self-employed route. Lisa Bowman reports....

Financial planning

The consensus of thought on the current crisis of adviser credibility in financial planning seems to be “sit tight and ride out the storm”. But is it enough? Keith Peel r...

Financial planning

How do you protect your clients from the risk of outliving their money? John Prowse reports....

Funds management

The retail funds management industry has suffered its worst quarter of net inflows since March 1995, with only $435 million of new funds being channelled into the industr...

Financial planning

Listed financial planning company Snowball Group has appointed Trent Capital managing director Andrew Brown as a non-executive director of the company, and given Trent, a...

Financial planning

Hedge fund managers employing a long bias in their equity strategies will benefit from stabilising investment markets over the next few years at the expense of managers a...

Financial planning

The Australian share market performed well in March ending the month up 4 per cent, a strong showing considering the roller coaster ride international equity markets prov...

Editorial

Despite growing assets under management by some $1 billion over the past year, Citigroup Asset Management (CAM), the Australian asset management business of the US-based ...

Financial planning

The attention generated by the shadow shopping survey appears to have paralysed the industry, argues Tom Collins....

Editorial

National Australia Bank (NAB) has reported a $205 million write-down of its $6.5 billion wealth management business due to the continued lacklustre performance of global...

Funds management

ANZ Banking Group is expected to reveal the flat performance of its wealth management joint venture with ING when it releases its half-yearly profit result tomorrow....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 1 day ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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