AUSTOCK Brokers has taken a strategic stake in Stockford and is seeking seats on the board less than two weeks after the departure of St George from the troubled consolid...
THE FUNDS management joint venture between ING and the ANZ Bank, known as ING Australia, is preparing to launch a new master trust platform....
The fees charged to investors in the retail managed fund market have fallen steadily over the last six years, according to a new study by the Investment and Financial Ser...
InvestorWeb Research has shut down its resources sector model portfolio fund and overhauled a series of others model portfolios after a review of the funds by the group’s...
The news of the healthy returns from US hedge fund investments continues to flow in as mutual fund managers report more lack lustre performance results....
FINANCIAL planners with Chifley Financial Services will head to the negotiation table after the group wrote to the planners withdrawing its unilateral change in the plann...
THE ASSOCIATION of Financial Advisers (AFA) has negotiated a deal to find insurance cover for its members through the London-based Lloyds group in order to bypass the wor...
Premium Accounting Group has boosted its member firm numbers to 19, following the signing of two new firms....
There was a time, which the pioneers of ethical investment in this country will remember, when investment practices which took account of non-financial criteria were cons...
Are you thinking that risk insurance is not the force it once was? Well it may be time to think again as the product that built the industry re-asserts itself. JASON SPIT...
American International Assurance (Australia) (AIA) launched Women’s SmartCover, a female crisis assistance benefit, this month. This introduction of a targeted women’s pr...
Trauma insurance grew out of the early 80’s Critical Illness insurance developed in South Africa. Since that time this type of insurance has spread across the globe and i...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...