Macquarie Investment Management is to open up its private equity fund of funds MAIT (Macquarie Alternative Investment Trust) to retail in-vestors for the first time in ea...
IOOF is planning to run its fund management operation separate from the friendly society structure, Money Management understands. An announcement is expected today (Thurs...
Fund managers must have the right people running their outsourcing services if they want to maintain their distribution relationships with financial planners. "Financial...
This is an open letter to all funds managers from a typical adviser who runs a small business. I mean to raise issues that urgently need to be addressed by all sides of o...
Listed property trusts have lost the gloss that saw them shine through 1998. But, as Peter Lavelle reports, a downturn in the market is also a clear buy signal....
Over the past few years, the Financial Planning Association has called on ASIC to regulate real estate agents who provide property investment advice. Shifting the spotlig...
From a friendly society tradition, IOOF funds management operation has emerged as a business in its own right. ...
Australia looks set to introduce the world's first property index - one which can provide a benchmark for portfolio performance and can be used as the basis for the devel...
US investors are flocking to index fund managers in droves. In the first three months of this year, Vanguard, America's second biggest mutual fund company, took in almost...
New rules on the taxation of friendly society bonds has created "a window of opportunity" for sales, according to IOOF group taxation manager Tony Jacobs....
A recent survey by Australian Property Institute (API) New South Wales Division has found that property experts still expect growth in retail property in Australia’s thre...
Who would have thought 18 months ago that Asian funds would be the market’s peak performers? Samantha Walker takes a look at how the funds are capitalising on the mopping...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...