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Financial planning
Every fund manager has its own investment style – and blending those styles can reduce portfolio volatility and smooth investment returns, says Mick O’Brien....
Financial planning
ING Investment Management chief investment officer Geoff Martin will step down from his role at the end of the year and be replaced indirectly by an increase in responsib...
Financial planning
Shareholders of listed investment company Bentley Equities - previously BT Global Asset Management - today voted down a proposal to appoint Select Asset Management as its...
Editorial
The investment industry has long been criticised for being reactive in its provision of products. Perhaps this is partly the result of the long lead time in getting a new...
Funds management
The boutique created by the now defunct National Asset Management team is firing on all cylinders. John Wilkinson reports....
Financial planning
The financal services industry should abandon its focus on end-of-month performance figures with investors needing to understand quarterly data at least presents a more a...
Financial planning
When the chairman of Hunter Hall International, Peter Hall, founded the ethical fund manager back in 1994, it was a one-man band that took four years to reach $30 million...
Financial planning
MLC is not a fund manager, but a manager of managers, combining the expertise of 22 managers from around the world. Simon Segal reports....
Financial planning
The Suncorp Group has offloaded its 53 per cent interest in Hedge Funds Limited (HFL), while Hedge Funds of Australia (HFA) managing director Spencer Young has increased ...
Financial planning
Long/short funds are the darling buds of hedge funds as their strategies are “impossible to beat” and offer investors an investment “nirvana” in comparison to the strateg...
Financial planning
Counterpoint is to provide investment research and portfolio design services to the Snowball Group following incumbent research and asset consultant to the group, Dominic...
People & Products
HSBC Asset Management Australia has appointed a new head of Australian equities, Robert Hook, four months after the departure of previous equity head and chief investment...
Funds management
Select Asset Management has launched a single-manager global multi-strategy hedge fund through its joint venture with European hedge fund manager Aspect Capital, establis...
Financial planning
One of Ausbil Dexia’s five original founders, Winston Sammut, has sold his 8 per cent stake in the boutique firm to its joint venture partner, Dexia Asset Management (Dex...
Funds management
Hedge funds may have prospered from a move to absolute returns in recent years but strong performance figures are no guarantee they will continue to benefit argues Goldma...
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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...