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Financial planning

Absolute return fund manager Basis Capital Management has had its successful flagship fund made available to the retail market, with both BT and Macquarie now offering th...

Financial planning

UBS Global Asset Management (UBS GAM) chief investment officer (CIO) and head of asset allocation Jon Taylor has left the group to take up the role of CIO at HSBC Asset M...

People & Products

Boutique investment manager Perennial Investment Partners has appointed former Invesco head of operations Lewis Bearman into the same role with the predominantly value-st...

Financial planning

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) Australia has appointed former Westpac Investment Management chief investment officer Don Hamson into the newly created role of head o...

Financial planning

Invesco Australia has appointed former AXA Australia and New Zealand chief investment officer John Nairn in the newly created role of chief operating officer....

Financial planning

Alternative investment fund manager Absolute Capital has made significant changes to its investment team, with group managing director Deon Joubert picking up the role of...

Financial planning

AXA has been rated by InvestorWeb as the top six star manager for international equities, due to the success of its global value offering managed by US-based value manage...

Financial planning

InTech Research has appointed a new head of investment research, with Michael Coop stepping into the role....

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s (CBA) international wealth management businesses First State Investments UK and First State Investments Asia are to be combined and r...

Financial planning

Direct Portfolio Services has completely overhauled its board of directors following a failed coup d’état to oust company founder and chief investment officer John Alders...

Financial planning

AXA has brought the asset consulting of its superannuation products in-house, awarding the work to Ipac which had previously been handled by van Eyk Research....

Financial planning

Hunter Hall Investment Management has undergone a staff reshuffle with the appointment of a new chief investment officer and the resignation of one investment analyst and...

Financial planning

Australian boutique fund manager Select Asset Management has announced a joint venture with European hedge fund manager Aspect Capital to increase its absolute return foc...

Editorial

Investors have long held a bias to investing at home and, as Lochiel Crafter writes, this is understandable but does not justify current portfolio weightings....

People & Products

Global investment firm, The Russell Investment Group, has added an additional investment manager to both the Russell Australian Property Securities Fund and the hedged Ru...

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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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