INVESTMENT BONDS

People & Products

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

Tools & guides

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

Tools & guides

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

Features

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

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

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