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Russell Investment Group has lost the head of its investment consulting operation in Australian, David Hartley, who will move to private sector superannuation fund Sunsup...

Financial planning

Senior research analyst Dennis Mothoneos has left van Eyk Research after three years with the company to join investment advisory house, Strategic Capital Management....

Financial planning

Hedge funds are increasingly being used by planners, with inflows stable over the past 12 months due to the strength of returns from Australian equities....

Financial planning

Australian equities have become the star performers of many portfolios in the past 12 months, and every day the market gets stronger. But, like all good things, it has to...

Financial planning

It is a cruel irony that last year’s outperformance of the Australian equities sector should give few clues to fund manager performance during 2004 and the 12 months ahea...

Editorial

In late 2003, I wrote an article which pointed out some of the flaws in the new listed investment companies (LICs) floating at the time, and predicted that investors’ hig...

Financial planning

A reshuffle of Promina Group’s executive management team will see Tyndall Investment Management’s chief executive and chief investment officer Michael Goode reporting to ...

Financial planning

Mercer Global Investments added three diversified and four sector funds to its investment products range, taking a more aggressive approach to achieving returns whilst re...

Financial planning

It’s time again to return to the topic of gold. It comes at an interesting time when (at least at the time of writing) gold was confounding many critics by rising in pric...

Editorial

Picking a fund manager that will consistently outperform over the long-term is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And while advisers have greater acc...

Financial planning

A majority of Australian-based investment managers believe international equities will be the strongest performing asset class over the next 12 months....

Financial planning

A stellar performance in both Australian and international equities has resulted in Alliance Bernstein taking out the overall prize in the Money Management Fund Manager o...

Financial planning

The Australian-based Infrastructure Investments business unit within Deutsche Asset Management has been upgraded and expanded into a global operation....

Financial planning

The apparent bargain price paid for HSBC Asset Management Australia by Challenger Financial Services could reflect capacity constraints in its listed property business an...

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

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

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