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Toolbox tip of the week: Relationship marketing – are you doing it?

Are you going all the way with your clients, or stopping at second base?...

Challenger to corporatise following healthy profits

Challenger Financial Services is actively moving towards corporatisation, using the release of its annual results this week to reveal that it has already appointed advise...

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Treasury Group profit up more than threefold

The Treasury Group has cruised through the tumultuous 2002/03 financial year, reporting profits almost 350 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period....

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Will we ever see a managed funds hub?

Talk of managed funds hubs has gone on for more than three years but a system is not yet in place. Ben Abbott asks the remaining players if it will ever become a reality....

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FundConnect pushes ASX profit down

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) has announced a profit of $57.8 million for the year ending June 30 2003, slightly down on last year’s profit of $59.1 million, follow...

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Promina profitable in first period as public company

The newly listed Promina Group has revealed a $135 million profit after tax for the six months to June 30, with its financial services businesses performing in line with ...

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Listed investments stake their claim

Listed investments are readily accessible, well established and offer diversification, but they’re not yet in widespread use by planners....

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Listed investments: what’s out there

Listed investments are not a new development and have been available to advisers for many years. As such a whole industry has been established around them....

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Inside the alternative investment universe

Investors rattled by the underperformance of some traditional asset classes over the past few years may be warming to the inclusion of alternatives in their portfolios. C...

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CBA profits in black but funds management down

The Commonwealth Bank has posted a net profit after tax of $2.012 billion, a drop of 24 per cent from last year, with funds management doing little to boost the bank’s re...

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AMP confirms $2 billion loss

AMP today affirmed market expectations in announcing a $2.16 billion market loss, attributing the losses to the previously flagged poor performance of its UK life operati...

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International markets ripe for the picking

The international investment market is starting to turn, says Greg Germon, although trying to pick the low-hanging fruit is still a tricky business....