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Diversifying into international property would have delivered Australian investors five times the return for half the risk compared to an all-domestic portfolio during th...

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Colonial First State has outsourced half of the listed property trust portfolio in its balanced fund to Pengana Capital....

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Australia is one of the top ten countries for creating high-net-worth individuals, with 134,000 of us now having investable assets of more than US$1 million excluding hom...

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Swiss-based asset manager Julius Baer Investments is taking its first steps into the Australian market with the launch of a absolute return bond fund for local investors....

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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has sought to clarify the position of employers and organisations with respect to talking with employees about the ne...

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Macquarie Investment Management is poised to take the mantle of Australia’s largest investment manager from the Commonwealth Bank’s Colonial First State, according to the...

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Allegations of misleading conduct and mismanagement are behind a class action launched yesterday by 737 investors against AM Corporation founder David Smith and a former ...

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A new listed property security debuts on the Australian Stock Exchange this morning, with Charter Hall Group taking its property trust and attached management company to ...

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Trustees of superannuation funds have been given an extra year by the corporate regulator to provide Product Disclosure Statements to members that are meant to detail dif...

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Concern that in-house products were too heavily represented on Citigroup Asset Management’s corporate super master trust has prompted the fund manager to appoint the spec...

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The Federal Opposition has imposed itself on the debate into commission payments in the superannuation industry, using Australian Prudential Regulation Authority data to ...

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BT Financial Group has cut total ongoing fees on 52 of its wholesale and institutional investment funds by an average 17 per cent, with some cuts as high as 32 per cent....

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