In what is believed to be a first in the Australian financial services industry, Crescent Wealth and HSBC have launched an Islamic cash management fund....

AXA Investment Managers has this week announced the launch of a series of corporate bond strategies....

Standard & Poor's Fund Services has applied a four-star 'new' rating to the BT Global Fixed Interest Wholesale Fund, managed by BT Investment Management....

ETF Securities has expanded the range of exchange-traded commodities it has on offer in Australia....

Omega Investors links with Local Government Super to launch new government bond strategy....

Col Fullagar looks at the recent changes to the insurance definition of a heart attack and considers possible impacts on the financial advice process....

For insurers to survive and thrive they must pursue a program of continuous and customer-led innovation, writes Duncan West....

The Productivity Commission has signalled it will be recommending vastly more transparency be injected into the process of selecting default superannuation funds under mo...

In a joint initiative with Class Financial Systems, Bravura Solutions has integrated its Garradin investment management software with SMSF accounting solution Class Super...

The 10 biggest life insurers paid out just under $4 billion in claims in 2011 - up 11.4 per cent from 2010, according to research conducted by The Risk Store....