AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES
Funds management
Australian investors need to rethink their exposure to emerging markets, warns Morningstar....
People & Products
GMO has appointed Geoff Wells as head of Australian equities effective February 5, 2010. He will replace Rick Suvak, who is leaving the company....
Financial planning
Robert Harrison, chief executive of BNP Paribas Investment Partners Australia, has been selected to head the combined entity for Australia and New Zealand....
Financial planning
Bennelong points to investment opportunities by diversifying beyond the mining and energy mainstream....
Funds management
A Morningstar report into the performance of managed funds has revealed the extent of the failure of global equities funds to provide returns to investors over the past f...
Financial planning
Standard & Poor's has placed the Advance Concentrated Australian Shares Fund 'on hold' following changes to the fund's management team and methodology....
Financial planning
Steven Scott will be responsible for running both the investment strategy team and the research analysts team covering Australian equities at Ord Minnett....
Funds management
Emerging wealth management company Diversa has added to its acquisitions of Super Promoters and MARF by taking a stake in a boutique Australian equities manager led by Mi...
People & Products
Alex Chau is joining Macquarie’s Australian equities research team, which now consists of 10 researchers – six of which are senior analysts....
Editorial
Trustees should be free to make investment decisions without regulatory influences that create artificial markets for certain classes, writes Pauline Vamos....
Funds management
Morningstar has given a scathing assessment of AMP Capital Investors' Australian equities fund following the departure of one of the group's analysts on the same day the ...
Funds management
Macquarie is looking to its fundamental equities funds as a significant area of new business for the group....
Superannuation
A survey of SMSFs administered by Multiport reveals a dramatic move to Australian equities away from cash....
Financial planning
New Watson Wyatt research reveals Australian investment managers were among the hardest hit by the GFC....
Funds management
Russell Investments research suggests most fund managers believe the worst is over and have resumed their love affair with Australian equities....
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