An asset allocation specialist at a leading funds management organisation has warned financial planners against recommending strategies that attempt to “mastermind” the c...
The Challenger Financial Services Group’s funds under management, administration and advice surged to $46.4 billion in 2006, according to a recent quarterly announcement....
Mercer Investment Consulting has expanded its relationship with Macquarie Wealth Management, with the research group now providing two levels of service, one of which is ...
Credit Suisse Asset Management has revealed an optimistic outlook for global economic prospects for 2007....
Long-term investment issues will form the focus of a new research forum established by investment consultant van Eyk....
The dynamic nature of the current funds management industry is characterised by leading individuals devoted to new ways of doing things, according to Future Fund chair Da...
Property fund managers need to boost their knowledge of how financial planners think if they are to achieve good distribution of their products, a new report has found....
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are matching fund managers for investment performance, according to a survey by SMSF provider Multiport....
Standard & Poor’s is advocating investors take relatively short durations within fixed-income portfolios or a higher allocation to cash due to prevailing interest rate un...
With the value of so-called ‘target date funds’ claimed to have grown by over 50 per cent in the US over the past four years, Russell Investment Group is predicting such ...
Multi managers offered mixed performance in 2005 with growth multi-managers and those in global equities achieving strong results, while multi-managers in the Australian ...
Diversified balanced and growth funds have long been seen as an easy solution for the core of an investment portfolio, or even the whole of some (especially smaller) port...
Asset allocation strategies in 2006 will be very similar to what strategists were doing last year, says AMP Capital Investors head of investment strategy Shane Oliver....
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?...