Perpertual Investments has added a fourth product to its diversified funds range with the addition of the Diversified Growth fund aimed at investors seeking moderate grow...
A dearth in the willingness of fund managers to engage in fee based competition has placed a dampener on efforts to reduce investment fees over the last six months, accor...
IOOF has indicated that it would tackle the issue of demutualisation, if its members should vote in favour of the proposal in April or May next year....
Macquarie Investment Management has given its diversified balanced funds a more conservative tilt after conducting a wide-ranging review into the structure of the funds....
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has received the thumbs up from Assirt with its overall rating moving up from competent to strong with Assirt paying particular focus to t...
Australian shares look likely to maintain their status as an investor “safe haven” compared with other share markets, a panel of the financial services industry’s top chi...
The international and domestic sharemarkets were already suffering significant losses prior to the negative impact of the terrorist attacks in the US, according to result...
BT Financial Group has sold its registries division to Australia’s largest provider of share registration services Computershare....
MLC has extended its MasterKey investment platform to offer a complete portfolio management system to independent financial advisers....
Australian investors will sink more than $2.8 trillion into managed funds by 2012, according to Commonwealth Bank currency strategist Michael Workman....
Rob Keavney is no stranger to controversy. A recent article Keavney wrote to counter some of the extremes of exuberance on hedge funds sparked a number of detailed respon...
By Damien Hatfield The article ‘Hedge funds fail the asset class test’ in Money Management (24 May 2001) is a particularly timely discussion of a number of important issu...
I must readily concede a key point made in the responses to my article on hedge funds (Money Management, May 24). The article dealt with only certain types of funds and c...
Signs of a bull and bear market emerged in May when both Australian shares and listed property were the top performing asset classes for the month....
The founding members of the Evensky Group are dissolving their partnership only weeks before financing they sought for part of a US$45 million financial planning empire i...
The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...