Challenger’s meteoric rise in the financial services industry shows no sign of abating with the $45.6 million purchase of Deutsche Life....

Perpetual Registrars is to team up with the Australian stock exchange (ASX) in a joint venture, ASX Perpetual Registrars Limited (APRL) in a bid to increase market share ...

Mercantile Mutual’s investment and life insurance businesses recorded strong growth in the 1999 year, offsetting losses in its parent company’s general insurance and bank...

In response to the growing interest in share investing by Australians and as part of new regulations the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) will offer...

Financial services groups who invest in quality data mining services and open sys-tems may be the only survivors of the technology boom, according to Acxiom chairman Andr...

Perth tycoon Danny Hill, who made millions from the float of insurer AMP, is considering throwing his financial weight behind fellow Australian Fred Woollard's campaign t...

The much anticipated Australian arrival of US based online investment giant Charles Schwab’s has been confirmed for mid June....

Research house Assirt is to add a stock market research arm to its operations after the purchase of an interest in LM Equities Research from Leodaritsis Morgan Holdings (...

Despite the growing professionalism of the financial planning community, advisers are continuing to fall foul of the law. Samantha Walker investigates the fall from grace...

A financial services department staffed by tax lawyers, actuaries and technically minded product developers may sound like the industry equivalent of a full blown Star Tr...

I think it is time someone spilled the beans on computers and described exactly what goes on. Firstly, we should establish the fact that there are basically two types of ...