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The risks of chasing fund manager performance have been highlighted by the revelation in a new study that top-performing retail share funds one year invariably have lackl...

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AMP shares rose more than 25 per cent today to highs of $6.52 after National Australia Bank’s purchase of 34.3 million shares hinted to the market that the National is po...

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China’s fledgling asset management marketplace will eclipse the more established Hong Kong market in size by the end of the year when it will boast US$26.7 billion in ret...

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Morningstar’s new quantitative measuring rating system released last Friday has fuelled major changes to fund manager ratings in New Zealand....

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Financial planning software provider Syscorp has signed a deal with US-based Advent Software to provide local client support and consulting to the global group’s Australi...

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A new technology start-up company, WealthCare Mutual, is set to launch a software program into the financial services market enabling advisers and their clients to fully ...

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Research house Standard and Poor’s (S&P) will not charge up front fees to funds management groups to be rated marking a departure from its globally used pricing system....

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Nearly 60 Australian fund managers have been set a July 18 deadline by the New Zealand Securities Commission to investigate possible breaches of regulations in filing do...

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AMP affiliated financial advisers in New Zealand are thumbing their noses at a proposed support package by the company to help them through the de-merger process....

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Clients may be facing “poorer” and “fragmented” advice on superannuation fund structures under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA) if accountants are unable to give ...

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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) has reacted to industry criticism of the findings of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Corporations and Financial Services ...

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Shareholders of the Snowball Group have presented no obstacle to a $1.3 million dollar capital raising designed to drive growth and acquisition opportunities within the c...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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After last month’s surprise hold, the Reserve Bank of Australia has announced its latest interest rate decision....

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