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...
Research house Standard & Poor’s has finally finished its assessment of the new faces in charge of building most of Colonial First State’s Australian Equities funds, and ...
The Australian share market continues to be an impressive performer for investors, with the latest Intech research showing the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index produced a t...
In a single stroke expansion of its Australian operations, Fidelity Investments has launched 10 new investment funds at once, including single country funds, regional fun...
If there’s a constant in the ongoing industry debate over net benefits to super fund members, it is the regularity with which the key players have asked the Australian Se...
Global fund managers WestAM and Mellon Financial have announced plans to merge some of their operations into a 50:50 joint venture, in a move that will give Mellon a much...
Maple-Brown Abbot has been replaced by MIR Investment Management as part of a suite of substantial mandate changes to Advance Asset Management’s billion dollar multi-blen...
In what represents the first fall-out resulting from a recent senior departure from Portfolio Partners, Asset Super has decided to move its $28.2 million Australian equit...
Most of Colonial First State’s Australian equities funds have been given an ‘on hold’ rating by research house Standard & Poor’s due to the departure of a key staff membe...
Sealcorp has restructured its separately managed account (SMA) funds, moving from investing in various underlying managed funds to a multi-manager structure using mandate...
Individual managed accounts (IMAs) have been touted as the next big thing in financial services for a number of years. Admittedly, nobody knows exactly how many funds und...
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...