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Financial planning

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has added four new index funds to its books, in response to demands from the group’s master fund and dealer group clients....

Financial planning

Challenger has signed off the year to June 30 on a positive note with an after tax profit increase of 91 per cent....

Superannuation

Most may have not noticed it, but the government has been eroding the effectiveness of the superannuation system in the past and is likely to do so again in the next ten ...

Financial planning

Australian shares took a dive in the first month of the new financial year, coming off the back of being one of the top performing asset classes of last financial year....

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) has stepped up its support for the introduction of the proposed growth pension, to fill the existing gap in the m...

Financial planning

Advance Funds Management and Colonial First State picked up the bulk of the funds management gongs at last night’s Personal Investor Awards at Sydney’s ANA Hotel....

Financial planning

The overwhelming majority of people under the age of 24 and a third of people between the ages of 25 and 34 have failed to complete a will....

Funds management

More than $30 billion has been invested in the burgeoning syndicated property market in the past three years, according to a new report by Property Investment Research (P...

Financial planning

AXA has rolled out its first range of retail funds launche through its partnership with Alliance Capital, four months after launching the same range into the wholesale ma...

Financial planning

Andrew Mohl has added his voice to the chorus of fund managers calling on the government to allow equity and property investments to form part of lifetime annuity product...

Financial planning

Australian Unity is building on a reputation as a niche funds manager after the group received a number of four star funds ratings from research house, Assirt....

Financial planning

The huge number of investors who turned to international share funds last year will be licking their wounds when they are informed of performance numbers for the past fin...

Financial planning

Assirt has given the thumbs up to AXA’s funds management business in its first research findings since AXA signed the joint venture with Alliance Capital Management in Oc...

Funds management

Investors in property would do well to reweight their investment portfolio to commercial rather than retail property, says research house BIS Shrapnel....

Life/Risk

Advisers scramble to restore indemnity insurance...

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