In the past five years, funds under management in the agribusiness sector have grown by as much as 80 per cent. Last year, inflows into the sector topped $1 billion and s...
The glory days of the boutique fund manager are over. Investment managers from the big end of town, particularly BT, were the best performing managers of Australian equit...
Small cap initial public offers generated outstanding returns for investors in 2005, eclipsing the performance of their larger company counterparts on average by 15 per c...
While 2004 was the year of the boutique, 2005 was, well, the year of the boutique....
Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has placed the UBS Property Securities Fund on hold, following the exit of UBS property head John Snowden to Colonial First State....
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....
So you have a million dollars to invest. Let’s start by making some general assumptions; you own the property you live in, have no outstanding debts, you’re under 50-year...
Zurich Financial Services has joined the chorus of local fund managers urging Australian investors to look to offshore equity markets for out-performance in 2006....
Specialist trading firm Tricom Equities had struck a deal with Australia’s most talked about fund manager, MIR Investment Management, to provide it with model portfolios ...
Direct investment company Explorer Group has taken a strategic stake in boutique fund manager Above the Index Asset Management and gained the services of industry stalwar...
Australians can boast that they have a funds management industry renowned the world over for its innovation. But not very often does a successful local fund manager come ...
For the second time in a week investors have been told to hold off on investing in funds managed by Colonial First State, sparking expectations of radical changes to the ...
Research house van Eyk has dropped Macquarie’s style neutral Alpha Plus Fund as an underlying investment from its Blueprint Australian Shares Fund in favour of competitor...
Domestic equities may have driven double digit superannuation returns over the past two years but investment managers are becoming increasingly concerned that they have b...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...