AMP Capital Investors has signalled a greater emphasis on hedge fund product development, in the wake of chief investment officer Merv Peacock announcing his retirement....

Far fewer Australians are seeking financial advice, yet paradoxically they think the standard of that advice has dramatically improved, according to a survey of 25,000 co...

Balanced funds with an overweight position on large cap Australian equities continue to be rewarded, with the ASX 300 again proving the best mainstream home for investors...

The margin lending market has grown to record highs on the back of buoyant equity market returns, new figures show....

The US$4 trillion Mellon Financial Corporation is sizing up a plan to set up an Australian equities funds management arm....

MLC is claiming to have achieved better after-tax returns and lower transaction costs just months after introducing it unique ‘emulation’ method for running a multi-manag...

The margin lending market has grown to record highs on the back of buoyant equity market returns, new figures show....

The Australian equities market continues to defy expectations of a slowdown from last year’s growth highs, rising 2.2 per cent in February....

Australians own more shares directly than anyone else in the world but are as likely to get stock tips from a newspaper as from a financial planner, according to a study ...

Promina’s financial services division has contributed $132 million of the group’s $458 million profit for 2004, although the wealth management businesses chipped in just ...

Balanced funds that were overweight in Australian shares performed best last month, as the ‘January effect’ lifted the local bourse but passed over the US and Japanese ex...

US economic growth could be as low as 1 per cent in 2005, leading global markets to suffer as the world’s largest economy enters “the first phase of a painful decline”, a...

Not-for-profit super funds and commercial master trusts were equally represented among the best performing publicly available retirement products in 2004....

Good stockpicking will be more obviously rewarded in 2005 than it was during the blanket gains of the Australian equity market this year, according to Tyndall Investment ...