A direct share trading facility has been introduced within the Strategy Portfolio Service, enabling financial advisers using the wrap account to include direct equity inv...

THERE currently exists a level of euphoria surrounding individually managed accounts (IMAs) in the Australian investment marketplace that is highly questionable....

AUSTRALIANS are paying too much for funds under management, and consumers should have the option of paying fees on a performance basis to compensate for underperforming f...

For those Australian investors who have prided themselves on complaining about anything and everything for much of their lives, here’s a spanner for your works....

Australia’s first Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) product for the retail market, the Asgard SMA for shares offering, was officially launched by Sealcorp Holdings yester...

SPECIALIST fund-of-hedge-fund manager Investor Select Advisors is looking to team up with an Australian funds management group in an attempt to grab a foothold in Austral...

Australia’s managed fund industry has become hamstrung in its attempts to gain widespread support for ethical investment funds because of a lack of knowledge about the se...

Australian investors have reviewed their bullish optimism over the performance of the Australian share market and are now bracing themselves for the full impact of a down...

Sixty per cent of proactive investors who put their money into managed funds seek out the services of a financial planner, the, the Challenger/ASSIRT Proactive Investors...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has threatened to prosecute the Australian based agent of an offshore group after it discovered the group arranging to give Australia...

The confidence of Australian investors in the Australian economy and their investing environment has improved significantly since the end of last year, according to the l...

It is a phrase that will no doubt end up lost in the cluttered, oversized pile of clichés – that Australian investors are Internet savvy. However, regardless of its clich...

Tower Asset Management will expand its socially responsible investments (SRI) offering after it has struck a deal with international SRI manager Storebrand....

Assirt is to include hedge funds on its research radar for the first time....