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Financial planning

Management fees for most wholesale managed funds have not climbed following the introduction of the GST earlier this year with most choosing to hold fees or decrease them...

Financial planning

Australian Unity will expand its product offering with the announcement that it will enter the annuities market for the first time....

Funds management

Equities will continue to remain a solid investment for some time as the market moves through a major upward cycle according to AMP Asia Pacific chief investment officer ...

Financial planning

Macquarie Bank have joined the growing list of online service providers adding man-aged funds to its product list, and is in talks to provide online advice....

Financial planning

Australian and global investors are not as diversified as they think they are ac-cording to Bruce Coleman, chief of MLC Investment Management....

Funds management

Fund managers around the world are facing a major shake-out, according to one of the world’s biggest financial services groups, Frank Russell....

Funds management

Fund managers around the world are facing a major shake-out, according to one of the world’s biggest financial services groups, Frank Russell....

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch has launched a broad index of Australian debt securities that is one of the final building blocks in its soon-to-be-launched global index....

Funds management

Coastal Capital has become one of a growing number of fund managers marketing hedge funds to retail investors....

Financial planning

E*Trade in the US will team up with accounting and consulting giant, Ernst & Young to provide online financial planning, according to reports in the New York Times. Both ...

Financial planning

Listed property trusts proved their mettle as good defensive investments in May, raking up the top return among all asset classes....

Financial planning

Hartley Poynton is to spin off its e-commerce division and relaunch it as a provider of e-commerce and outsourcing solutions for financial services groups....

Financial planning

A recent report by Rice Kachor predicts that Australia’s financial services industry will swing convincingly to the retail side of the industry by 2010. Stuart Engel look...

Life/Risk

Insurance bonds will remain an attractive investment vehicle for high income investors until at least the end of the next financial year. Michael Abbott explains their at...

Financial planning

Summit master trust has rolled out its own DIY service for self managed super funds (SMSFs) and their trustees, offering administration and custody services. ...

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