Colonial First State, Commsec, Macquarie and Leveraged Equities were the big winners in a margin loan market that showed no signs of cooling off last year....
Independent financial advisers will remain key distribution channels for specialist life insurers PrefSure Holdings and Life Limited under its new owner Tower Australia....
Boutique fund manager Five Oceans opened for business this week with the launch of its inaugural international equities fund....
The recent stellar performance of commodity markets has prompted the separate release of two capital guaranteed commodity products for retail investors by Macquarie Portf...
THERE’S at least one financial planner out there who views the emergence of reverse mortgages as a compliment to financial planners...
The recent ruling by the Australian Taxation Office allowing financial planners to give tax advice has blurred the roles of accountants and advisers even further. In the ...
The Financial Planning Association’s (FPA) new professional indemnity (PI) insurance facility has proved its worth, demonstrating that it could save members 15 per cent o...
Gearing is successful in a “majority of occasions” as an investor strategy to add value to a portfolio, according to new research by MLC....
The agribusiness managed investment scheme industry raised $1.024 million in 2004-05, up 54 per cent on 2003-04, according to an Australian Agribusiness Group report....
Australian Unity had added to its portfolio of property funds with the launch of a geared property income fund....
The Federal Government will move to override state laws in order to give employees on state based employment awards the option to choose their own superannuation fund....
The financial planning and fund management industries will push for accountants to be expelled from a Financial Services Reform Act exemption, claiming they will oversell...
Technology provider Boss Software has incorporated six new next-generation strategic modelling tools into its Dimensions financial planning system as the first stage of a...
Fidelity Investments has bulked up its ranks in order to spearhead its drive into the retail distribution market, after suffering the loss of investment mandates worth al...
For years financial planners have tried to maximise the value of partnerships with accountants, but the relationship is more often than not sub-optimal, writes Martin Ker...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...