Challenger International has attributed a 24 per cent rise in year-on-year profits to an increase in sales of annuity and funds management products....

In the last article I discussed what I believe are the limitations to the current approach to asset allocation of much of the financial planning (and funds management) in...

IWL has experienced a 76 per cent, or $6.5 million, increase in operating revenues in the year to the end of June, but ended up with an overall loss of $1.2 million....

Diversification can be as important for investors looking for a regular income stream as it is for those looking for capital growth, writes ROB KEAVNEY....

Despite the emphasis placed on the importance of asset allocation, DOMINIC McCORMICK thinks traditional wisdom on what constitutes strategic asset allocation leaves a lot...

Small cap funds have done well in the last year but they are becoming more difficult to access, as GEORGE LIONDIS discovers....

In a recent column, Robert Keavney reignited the risk profiling debate. LISA CHAMBERS argues that planners are legally obliged to understand their client’s risk tolerance...

Fund of funds investment vehicles continue to gain investor dollars and adviser support as each seek easier ways to invest. However, MARK KNIGHT questions whether the fun...

NRMA parent Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has pumped $12 million into its financial services division during the 2001-02 financial year but has experienced a net loss o...

MLC has announced that it will compensate investors in its superannuation products who suffered a loss in the value of their investment when they were transferred from si...

As the global economy continues to reel from the events of September 11 and corporate collapses both here and overseas, investor confidence has been shaken. NICOLE SZOLLO...