INVESTMENT BONDS

People & Products

Insignia Financial has executed a share sale agreement with Australian Unity to sell its $1.1 billion friendly society investment bond business. ...

People & Products

Generation Life has revealed investment bond upgrades as well as enhanced features of its LifeBuilder, ChildBuilder, and FuneralBond solutions to support wealth transfers...

Tools & guides

Investments bonds offer a number of flexible, tax-advantaged benefits, writes Emma Sakellaris, but these are often overlooked as old fashioned when it comes to portfolio ...

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Financial planning

Investment bonds are overlooked as an investment tool even though they offer a number of advantages that advisers should consider, according to Foresters Financial....

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Tools & guides

Centuria Life’s Michael Blake looks at investment bonds, compares their features and benefits to super, and explains why they can be an excellent parallel strategy to sup...

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Financial planning

Investment bonds could help Australian parents and grandparents save for the next generation’s financial future, according to Generation Life. ...

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Features

With an ageing population, increasing longevity and policy reform making superannuation a less suitable tool for leaving wealth, Hannah Wootton looks at what structures p...

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Funds management

Provider of ASX-traded corporate bond investments, XTB has announced that all its portfolios outperformed bond indices in the past 12 months....

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Superannuation

Australian super funds continue to invest far more in deposits and less in bonds than their counterparts abroad, according to Spectrum Asset Management....

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