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The technology produced by research houses for advisers to access and manipulate their research becomes more advanced and competitive every year. Lucie Beaman looks at wh...

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....

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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....

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...

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...

The poor performance of many developed international share markets over the past few years has strengthened the case for investors to allocate a greater proportion of the...

With the Aussie dollar rising, does hedging add value? Margaret Callinan reports....

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