FUND MANAGER
Financial planning
The link between advice and implementation should be broken, according to TOM COLLINS, and this means a re-examination of the thorny issues of commissions and disclosure....
Financial planning
The recent Money Management Rating the Raters Survey, which gauged fund managers’ attitudes to research houses, has drawn responses from the research groups featured in t...
Financial planning
For some time I have been confused by industry experts arguing that there will be an increase in the number of DIY and small dealer groups, when most other financial part...
Financial planning
NICOLE SZOLLOS explores the correlation between the number of planners employed by a distributor and funds under advice. ...
Financial planning
Ventura Investment Management, the new funds management arm of dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS), has been given its first taste of credibility with new...
Funds management
Colonial First State has announced senior portfolio manager Simon Shields the successor to Greg Perry as the portfolio manager for the group’s flagship Australian equitie...
Financial planning
Tyndall Investment management has been rewarded for adhering to its deep value style, with research house Assirt today upgrading the manager’s Australian share products f...
Financial planning
Morningstar has reconfirmed the Tower group’s one star rating indicating a relatively ‘very poor quality’ fund manager....
Financial planning
Morningstar has changed its qualitative ratings model that will extend both the range and number of funds rated by the research house without changing its 50/50 qualitati...
Financial planning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued its first ever license under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSR), with the first cab off the ra...
Funds management
New Zealand fund managers can stop holding their breath waiting for the Securities Commission’s report on practices within their industry - it’s officially been canned....
Editorial
Following a poor rating, fund managers are the first to criticise a research house’s approach as either too qualitative or quantitative in its focus. However, as FIONA MO...
Rate the raters
Despite rating the value that research houses provide as high, funds managers are not clear on how the research market differentiates itself, and as a result, who is best...
Financial planning
Research house Morningstar has given the thumbs up to IOOF after the fund manager appointed two international specialist fixed interest managers for its suite of multi-se...
Financial planning
Challenger has had a strong six months to December 31, 2001 which puts the group on track to make its targeted three yearly after tax profit of $200 million by the end of...
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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...