Absolute return fund of hedge funds (FOHFs) are indispensable to self-managed super funds (SMSFs) for both returns and diversification, according to HFA Research investme...

Portfolio Partners has won all three of the categories it entered into in the 2006 Australian Business Awards....

Matrix Planning Solutions authorised representative Jason Danjoux is the 2006 Association of Financial Advisers’ Rising Star of the Year....

Allco Finance Group’s funds management division is targeting more than $2 billion in new funds under management by the end of the 2006-07, following its merger with Recor...

Citigroup has launched Optimiser 4, a multi-asset structured product offering returns calculated retrospectively on the best performing of three distinct multi-asset ‘inv...

Industry Fund Services chairman Garry Weaven has welcomed a new advertising campaign by the Financial Planning Association for inadvertently spruiking the case for indust...

Reverse mortgage operation Bluestone Equity Release has expanded into New Zealand, backed by funding from Westpac Institutional Bank....

Investors have responded to the 25 per cent fall in the oil price in recent weeks by reducing their liquidity levels, according to the latest Merrill Lynch survey of glob...

ING’s new OneCare life insurance product was the industry’s top selling product for new business sales via the independent adviser in the first six months of 2006, accord...

The woman ousted earlier this year as Perth Chapter chairman of the Financial Planning Association, Julie Matheson, has won election to the national board of the FPA....