As any financial adviser knows, the best way to sound authoritative about the share market is to guess. That is exactly how Christine Kiernan of Kiernan Consultants manag...

Like all small business people, financial planners would like to broadcast their serv-ices across the rooftops. Sam Walker investigates whether anyone is really listening...

Recently formed Australian investment company Castle Capital Management has formed an alliance with European specialist fund manager Kempen Capital Man-agement (UK)....

BT institution Steve Newnham is leaving the group after 13 years to head up distribution at Zurch Financial Services....

New research by Frank Russell has put some meat behind claims the current boom in Internet companies is much the same as a number of boom and bust industries in the past,...

Called Income Securities; a bright new investment product under pressure, the re-port argues that the current low price of income securities presents investors with a bu...

US managed funds giant Janus Capital Corporation is joining fellow countrymen Morgan Stan-ley by venturing into the Japanese market....

New Zealand’s lacklustre superannuation industry has received a much needed shot in the arm from the Labour Government’s new tax regime....

Question: Do you advise on self managed superannuation funds? ...

It is interesting to see how, despite the temporary dictates of current fashion, certain values always come into their own. Right now “trust” is an old fashioned value of...

The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) is claiming a “partial victory” on the issue of commission disclosure as outlined in the Financial Services Reform Bill (CLERP...