AUSTRALIAN INVESTORS

Financial planning

It seems the sky is the limit for Advance Asset Management, which has announced that it is managing more than $7 billion of funds for retail and Australian investors....

Funds management

Macquarie Portfolio Management has expanded its range of hedge fund investment options, giving retail investors access to a global group of absolute return hedge fund man...

Funds management

Westpac Funds Management has galvanised its aim to establish the first Australian residential real estate investment trust by securing the seed asset for the product via ...

Editorial

The two-year-old strategic alliance between Advance Asset Management and Mellon Global Investments has now passed the $1 billion mark in funds under management....

Financial planning

Current poor returns from the bond market could signal Australia once again plunging into a recession according to research house Standard & Poor’s....

Funds management

Macquarie Bank has signed an American fund manager that invests in global property securities to the fifth instalment of its Professional Series....

Financial planning

The local arm of US-based investment bank Goldman Sachs JBWere, has launched a new managed fund that will mostly invest in infrastructure stocks listed on the Australian ...

Financial planning

An illegal scheme that promised investors returns of up to 8 per cent per week has been rated by the corporate regulator as the most outrageous financial proposition offe...

Financial planning

Investors should increase their exposure to overseas markets, according to ING Investment Management chief executive Grant Bailey....

Financial planning

Investments in alternative assets are set to rise over the next two years, driven mainly by the increased use of hedge funds, according to a Russell Investment Group surv...

Financial planning

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...

Funds management

Growing demand from Australian investors for global property exposure has prompted ING Investment Management to launch a locally domiciled global listed property fund....

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch Investment Managers is bringing the highly diversified investment approach, philosophy and process of its US-based Global Allocation Fund to the Australian ...

Financial planning

Fake websites set up by phoney international regulators are duping Australian investors into buying shares from dodgy offshore stockbrokers....

Financial planning

Several Australian investors have signed up to the 2005 Carbon Disclosure Project, an annual global effort to encourage the world’s largest companies to disclose their ca...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

3 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

3 months 1 week ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

5 months 1 week ago

ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

3 weeks 2 days ago

The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

4 weeks ago

A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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