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Financial planning

The investment management division of the Melbourne based Equity Trustees group, EQT Fund Management, has launched a small companies fund targeted specifically at retail ...

Financial planning

Morningstar has confirmed BNP Paribas’s one star manager rating following the qualitative assessments of its subcontracted investment management and international equitie...

Financial planning

A multi-manager approach to investing in equities is gaining momentum. But as FIONA MOORE reports, it means planners will need to redefine where they add value....

Funds management

AXA retail funds and superannuation marketing national manager Mick O’Brien has become the group’s new chief investment officer (CIO) after AXA decided to combine the rol...

Financial planning

It is as spectacular a fall from grace as you are ever likely to see. In the heady days of 1999 and early 2000, stock markets were floating on a wave of tech-fuelled euph...

Funds management

AMP Henderson Global Investors' (AMPH) former New Zealand equities manager Stephen Walker is suing the company for nearly NZ$1 million....

Financial planning

Assirt has singled out for praise the Australian equities capabilities of Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in its most recent rating of the funds management group....

Financial planning

The retailisation trend does not appear to be a local phenomenon, generated by our market conditions but rather is also evident in international markets....

Financial planning

A meeting of the minds facilitated by Morningstar recently concluded that international sharemarkets offer the best growth opportunities for Australian investors in the n...

Financial planning

UBS Asset Management (UBSAM) has started the new year on a positive note after research house Assirt handed the group a solid overall rating and awarded its Australian eq...

People & Products

The last remaining founder of Portfolio Partners, David Slack, has left the company which he co-founded the company in 1994 with Keith Ince and a group of former County N...

Funds management

Listed property trusts (LPT) have finished 2001 as the best performing asset class for Australia investors, rewarding those who flocked to defensive sectors both before a...

Financial planning

Rothschild Australia Asset Management is set to enter into three new strategic alliances that will see it outsource its global fixed interest, global listed property and ...

Financial planning

Over the past month, ING Australia has retrenched close to100 people across the board following an overall reorganisation of the business....

Financial planning

Shrugging off recent ructions surrounding its management, Morningstar has downgraded BNP Paribas and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), dropping the first to one s...

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