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Financial planning

14 Jul

Tower sells NZ Trust business

Tower Trust in New Zealand has been offloaded for NZ$25 million ($22.5 million), after being deemed a non-strategically aligned business operation within the Tower group,...

Financial planning

11 Jul

Treasury Group in new boutique deal

Treasury Group has taken its fourth stake in a boutique funds management group, with a 35 per cent holding in start-up small cap investment firm, Confluence Asset Managem...

People & Products

10 Jul

Principal appoints new head of Asia

Principal Global Investors has appointed a new managing director to head up its Asian operations, with Sydney-based head of strategic business development Hazel McNeilage...

Financial planning

09 Jul

Lack of style blurs manager stock selection

The distinction between value and growth fund managers has blurred in the domestic market and investors are now reluctant to pay a premium for future growth as their appe...

Financial planning

08 Jul

BT/InTech alliance gets ratings approval

InTech and BT Financial Group’s multi-manager alliance has been given an encouraging first ever rating by InvestorWeb Research despite a below median performance over the...

Financial planning

07 Jul

GPG back in Tower deal as underwriter

Tower Limited confirmed today that Guinness Peat Group (GPG) will act as underwriter to its NZ$210.8 million ($185 million) recapitalisation raising despite the latter ha...

Financial planning

07 Jul

Directors cut as coup d’état fails to oust founder

Direct Portfolio Services has completely overhauled its board of directors following a failed coup d’état to oust company founder and chief investment officer John Alders...

Financial planning

07 Jul

Pengana unveiled

The former listed property team at Principal Global Investors (PGI) has unveiled its new boutique property securities funds management company – Pengana Capital – and con...

Financial planning

07 Jul

Uncertainty fuels AMP downgrade

Van Eyk Research has downgraded one AMP fund and placed another on hold, after negatively reassessing the group’s business management rating and given the uncertainty now...

Financial planning

07 Jul

Macquarie sows fund seeds

Macquarie Bank has boosted its alternative investments offering to retail investors with the launch of the Macquarie Forestry Investment (MFI) Fund....