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Life insurance premium inflows declined in the 12 months to the end of June despite surges in the group superannuation investment and risk markets, according to figures r...

Financial planning

The life insurance industry has continued with its moves to become more profitable and the news is good for planners. JASON SPITS examines what senior executives are plan...

Financial planning

Rising prices and changes to product design are front of mind in the risk insurance industry, JOHN WILKINSON found....

Financial planning

Disability and trauma claims are still dogging the risk insurance industry, writes JOHN WILKINSON....

Editorial

The debate over fees and charges preoccupying industry observers over the past year and a half peaked recently with the launch of the Labor Party’s policy platform includ...

Financial planning

IF THERE was one phrase to illustrate what this year’s Top 100 has revealed, it would have to be “steady as it goes”....

Financial planning

Investors are more pessimistic about the current share market outlook than financial advisers, although both have growing expectations of a bear market, according to the ...

Financial planning

THE Merrill Lynch Investment Management group commands more loyalty from its customers than all other fund managers, even though it accounts for less than one per cent of...

Financial planning

The make up of professionals filling the rungs of the Top 100 ladder are changing. JULIE BENNETT investigates exactly who is in the financial planning mix of 2002....

Financial planning

LIFE insurance houses have finally admitted what the funds management industry has known for some time – that third party financial planners hold the reins when distribut...

Financial planning

A psychologist will be provided to clients of a new personal advisory company, Mentor, to increase advisor ability to make the right choice of investment for individual c...

Financial planning

The low level of Australia’s household cash savings could prove a major crisis for the country in the future, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned....

Financial planning

Mutual fund assets in Asia, excluding Japan, are expected to grow to a figure of US$495 billion by 2006, up from US$252 billion at the end of 2001, according to a recent ...

Financial planning

AMP has today placed a trading halt on its shares after they plunged more than 7 per cent yesterday on the back of investor concern about the group’s UK based Pearl opera...

Financial planning

The low level of Australia’s household cash savings could prove a major crisis for the country in the future, the Financial Planning Association (FPA) has warned....

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