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Efforts to rescue Equitable Life, which closed its doors to new investors last month, are now seen as crucial to save the world’s oldest mutual....

Fees charged for US mutual funds have declined in three of the past four years, according to the US investment watchdog....

The proportion of self directed investors is on the wane, according to a new study by Macquarie Investment Management....

Deutsche Asset Management has rolled out a series of mezzanine products targeted at financial advisers....

Asset classes encountered another topsy turvy month in the last month of 2000 with poor results in equity markets juxtaposed against a soaring listed property trust class...

Co-founder of Portfolio Partners, Keith Ince, has stepped down from his role as co-managing director of the Norwich-owned fund manager....

Consolidator group Harts Australasia has continued its six-month buying spree, picking up Canberra-based accounting firm Wilson, Watt Papandrea and Townsville accounting ...

Towers Perrin will take on the administration, actuarial and consulting services for the News Limited superannuation funds after the media group decided to switch from it...

While investors in the local share market may have suffered losses on the market last year, the Australian market fared much better than most overseas markets....

Former Lend Lease Corporate Services chief executive Anthony Patterson will take on the role of distribution manager with Colonial First State, recently vacated by Coloni...

AMP Financial Services chief Andrew Mohl has been named as chairman of the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) for 2001....

The Securities Institute is to pioneer a course for the fast growing Certified Financial Analyst designation under an agreement with the Sydney Society of Financial Analy...

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