AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES
Funds management
A sharp correction in Australian shares between now and the reporting season in September would not be unwelcome, according to Bell Potter director of research Peter Quin...
Editorial
Perpetual chairman Robert Savage has forecast an 18 per cent increase in operating profit after tax for the company in 2007, based on the $122.4 million it achieved last ...
Financial planning
Both Standard & Poor’s (S&P) and Lonsec have reviewed the ratings assigned to the Australian equities offerings from Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS) an...
Financial planning
Australian stockbrokers have surpassed financial planners in their ability to embrace gearing strategies, with a new report claiming a large percentage of the broking ind...
Financial planning
For boutique Australian equities fund manager, Adam Smith Asset Management (ASAM), the secret behind their success lies in the two decades of experience in its founders....
Editorial
Barclay Global Investors (BGI) nominates its scientific approach, long track record of success in the space and employees with diverse skill sets to explain winning the A...
Financial planning
The launch of the UBS Absolute Return Series 1 fund makes UBS one of the latest global fund managers to offer a fund that takes different positions within the same asset ...
Financial planning
Colonial First State has enhanced the investment menu of its platform FirstChoice by adding three new geared options....
Life/Risk
ING has announced a breakthrough tax ruling affecting its OneCare life insurance products at the same time ING Investment Management said it still has one of the largest ...
Financial planning
Financial services recruitment specialist Lynn Muirhead has predicted the Government’s recent tax changes relating to superannuation will spur a barrage of movement among...
Financial planning
Hindal is about to launch a managed fund offering a lowly correlated alternative investment class to the major asset classes in the form of purchasing and holding histori...
Financial planning
IWL has secured a further two-year services agreement with Entrust Private Wealth Management for the use of its portfolio business Echelon....
People & Products
After sitting on the sidelines of the funds management game for the past five years, former Portfolio Partners joint managing director David Slack has formed a new funds ...
Financial planning
Aberdeen Asset Management has indicated there could be further bulking up of its Australian equities and fixed income operations just moments after announcing it had purc...
Financial planning
Invesco anticipates the ‘on hold’ rating it received from Standard & Poor’s yesterday for its Australian share funds will remain for the next couple of months while it lo...
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