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Editorial

Suncorp Metway rounded off the 2003-04 financial year on a high today by reporting a record 61 per cent increase in net profit across all three of its main business areas...

Financial planning

The introduction of straight through processing for dealers and planners heralds a new era in client communication. Lucia Appleby reports....

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has attributed its 28 per cent rise in net profit for the financial year just ended to resurgent equity markets, improved general and l...

Financial planning

Over the past three years, more and more advisers have said they are becoming ‘lifestyle’ focused with their financial planning business and we have heard buzz words such...

Funds management

Fund managers remain bullish as to the direction US equity markets will take for the remainder of the year and into 2005 despite last nights anticipated quarter point rat...

Financial planning

Astarra Funds Management has rolled out its first suite of investment offerings following the group’s unveiling earlier this year after management acquired and re-branded...

Financial planning

There has been an 11 per cent spurt in the number of high net wealth individuals in Australia over the past year according to the 2004 World Wealth Report released today ...

Financial planning

Alternative investment group HFA Asset Management has added two further staff members to its team as part of an ongoing push to boost its capabilities....

Editorial

Should we be really happy with a return of 7 per cent? DOMINIC McCORMICK says if we took currency more seriously, we could expect to get considerably more....

Financial planning

St George Bank has reaped the benefits of an expanded distribution network, stronger equity markets and renewed investor confidence over the past twelve months with an al...

Financial planning

Financial services institutions will battle it out for a share of $25 billion in annual fees by early next decade according to the latest bi-annual Market Projections Rep...

Financial planning

In early January, Hunter Hall International announced it was in the advanced stages of planning a listed investment company (LIC), and that between $50 million and $200 m...

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch Australia is steadily bolstering its ranks with the appointment of 20 new staff across its various businesses in light of improving equity markets and a mor...

Financial planning

Listed investment companies (LICs) dominated capital raising activity on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in the March 2004 quarter, with five LICs raising a total of ...

Funds management

Almost two-thirds of financial advisers polled in a recent survey remain confident equity markets will continue to rise this year....

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