investment bonds

Financial planning

Australian Unity transforms wealth business with investment bond focus

Having divested its financial advice business to Fortnum Private Wealth, Australian Unity has shared further details on how it is transforming the wealth arm of the busin...

People & Products

Insignia sells investment bond arm for $40m

Insignia Financial has executed a share sale agreement with Australian Unity to sell its $1.1 billion friendly society investment bond business. ...

People & Products

Generation Life enhances advisers’ estate planning options

Generation Life has revealed investment bond upgrades as well as enhanced features of its LifeBuilder, ChildBuilder, and FuneralBond solutions to support wealth transfers...

Tools & guides

Utilising the advantages of investment bonds

Investments bonds offer a number of flexible, tax-advantaged benefits, writes Emma Sakellaris, but these are often overlooked as old fashioned when it comes to portfolio ...

Financial planning

Investment bonds overlooked by advisers

Investment bonds are overlooked as an investment tool even though they offer a number of advantages that advisers should consider, according to Foresters Financial....

Tools & guides

When super’s not so super

Centuria Life’s Michael Blake looks at investment bonds, compares their features and benefits to super, and explains why they can be an excellent parallel strategy to sup...

Financial planning

Investment bonds could help next gen’s financial future

Investment bonds could help Australian parents and grandparents save for the next generation’s financial future, according to Generation Life. ...

Features

Getting ahead of planning for the end

With an ageing population, increasing longevity and policy reform making superannuation a less suitable tool for leaving wealth, Hannah Wootton looks at what structures p...

Funds management

XTB portfolios beat indices

Provider of ASX-traded corporate bond investments, XTB has announced that all its portfolios outperformed bond indices in the past 12 months....

Superannuation

Australian super funds look at corporate bonds

Australian super funds continue to invest far more in deposits and less in bonds than their counterparts abroad, according to Spectrum Asset Management....