Investors and their advisers should not be lured into capital guaranteed investment options by the continuing uncertainty pervading economies around the world....
It’s been a tumultuous 18 months – but as in all walks of life, the good times will certainly follow the bad, says DAMIAN KINGTON...
The retail managed fund market shrunk by 1.8 per cent to $291.1 billion in the June quarter of this year, figures released today by research group Plan-For-Life show....
Macquarie Equity Markets has released two new capital protected investment products to cater to Australia’s increasingly nervy share market investors....
OFM Investment Group has reported higher than expected year-end net profits, which were 9.2 per cent higher than forecast when the group listed on the Australian Stock Ex...
Despite the emphasis placed on the importance of asset allocation, DOMINIC McCORMICK thinks traditional wisdom on what constitutes strategic asset allocation leaves a lot...
Even the all conquering brussell sprout has failed to list the NRMA’s new financial planning division, ClearView Retirement Solutions, into the black, with the business l...
AMP Financial Services has reported a steady but ‘soft’ performance for the first half of 2002, reflecting lower cash flow figures as a result of poor investment market c...
Investors are worried about LPTs, not because they have performed badly, but because they have performed so well. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....
The use of stock options as part of executives’ remuneration led to an unspoken pact between investors and corporation management that has exacerbated the current malaise...
SOME of Australia’s leading investment specialists have come together to call on financial planners to hold their nerve and convince their clients to stay in Australian a...
Perpetual Trustees Australia today reported a full year net profit of $75.6 million, up 38 per cent from the prior year....
RAPID Ratings has joined forces with Brillient managing director Graham Rich to provide company and credit risk rating information to the Australian funds management and ...
The 1990s were actually quite unusual in that we did not experience one instance in which markets fell by more than 20 per cent. On average, we experience bear markets ev...
INVESTORS looking to optimise their share market returns in the next six months should look to value stocks given the prevailing economic conditions, which will create a ...
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,...