Leading actuarial firm, Rice Walker has entered into a joint venture with the Australian National University aimed at compiling a more comprehensive picture of Australia’...

Business overheads insurance remains one of the least understood and least familiar insurance concepts to consumers and advisers alike, but providers are continuing to st...

The double digit returns secured by the majority of Australian superannuation funds in 2004-05 have been reinforced by REST Superannuation which last week announced a 12....

Financial planners and retail investors are supporting a wider range of capital market vehicles than ever, but are becoming more discerning in doing so, according to KPMG...

Most new property trusts in the next 12 months would feature overseas property as the famine of good quality Australian properties coming to market continued, a prominent...

Mariner Financial has become the latest fund manager to launch an American property trust, the Mariner American Property Income Trust, which it claims will target high-yi...

The funds management arm of real estate giant Multiplex has bought 11 supermarkets scattered around provincial New Zealand and in Auckland to add to the other 22 retail, ...

MLC has taken the unusual step of terminating a mandate with Platinum Asset Management, one of four managers dropped in a global equity overhaul aimed at boosting after-t...

Citigroup Asset Management funds with any offshore exposure have been kept on hold by retail fund raters Standard & Poors, following the sale of the US firm to Legg Mason...

Picking a fund manager that will consistently outperform over the long-term is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And while advisers have greater acc...

The success of a dealer group is often measured by adviser numbers. However, examining the assets of the dealer group – that is, the funds under advice and the productivi...

A majority of Australian-based investment managers believe international equities will be the strongest performing asset class over the next 12 months....

Van Eyk and property research group, Managed Investment Assessments have released the first report completed under a strategic alliance formed by the companies in April t...

A former Mawson Securities adviser who allegedly defrauded the Queensland company of nearly $500,000 is one of three separate fraudsters to be set upon by the Australian...