Citigroup Asset Management has warned financial planners, in light of the war in Iraq and a continued global downturn, of the importance in highlighting to clients the lo...
Fund manager Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has launched a new small caps fund, the Deutsche Australian Small Companies Fund, to take advantage of a perceived gap in th...
Deakin Financial Services Group has received an enthusiastic response to the introduction of its Smartplan wrap platform, with over a dozen advisers having commenced its ...
The Count Financial Group is set to launch an superannuation trustee administration platform in conjunction with Trust, the group created out of the merger between Perman...
Research house Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) has added eight hedge fund/fund-of-funds (FOFs) products to its ‘recommended’ list within its Hedge Fund Sector Review and has...
Melbourne-based fund manager Equity Trustees (EQT) has acquired the $110 million Wealthpac Access Master Trust, which has 7,600 members and is comprised of employer super...
The Australian arm of DB Absolute Return Strategies, the global hedge fund business of Deutsche Bank, yesterday announced it will delegate the management of all its fund ...
The previous chief executive of the Financial Planning Association (FPA) Michael McKenna died suddenly overnight....
AXA chief executive officer Les Owen says that despite all the recent bad news the outlook for the Australian wealth management market looks good....
Despite being in operation for over four years, George Avramides claims few planners are aware of the Pension Bonus Scheme (PBS)....
Making them feel special is one way of ‘conditioning’ clients into referring others to you. Max Franchitto shows how you can turn your clients into BDMs....
IOOF’s purchase of AM Corporation spells the end for the latter’s brand, but as John Wilkinson writes, the best parts will live on....
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?...