FUND MANAGER

Financial planning

In less than a fortnight, the first conference to combines wholesale and retail financial services kicks off in Melbourne. Two of the IFSA conference's keynote speakers s...

Financial planning

Deutsche Funds Management (DFM) is about to launch what it believes are Australia's first themed international funds....

Financial planning

Macquarie Technology Funds Management and Acer Capital Australia have launched a $30 million venture capital fund....

Financial planning

Technology stocks are generally not overvalued if evaluated in terms of the longer-term changes that are occurring to the economy....

Funds management

This is an open letter to all funds managers from a typical adviser who runs a small business. I mean to raise issues that urgently need to be addressed by all sides of o...

Funds management

Over the past few years, the Financial Planning Association has called on ASIC to regulate real estate agents who provide property investment advice. Shifting the spotlig...

Financial planning

Tower Asset Management's forte in Australian equities has helped it win $715 million in new money to manage lately. ...

Financial planning

Australians are most likely to choose a fund managers based on a recommendation, usually from a financial planner or family member, rather than advertising, a new ASSIRT/...

Funds management

From a friendly society tradition, IOOF funds management operation has emerged as a business in its own right. ...

Financial planning

Most traditional value managers have been languishing at the bottom of the performance charts over the past year, but not Perpetual In-vestments. The group grabbed third ...

Financial planning

Credit Suisse Asset Management is new to the retail market, having only just launched a series of funds aimed at the private investor. The response from the market, howev...

Financial planning

Performance track record is the common starting point for both retail and wholesale fund management appointments. Industry publications such as Money Management and Perso...

Financial planning

As we approach the first anniversary of the Managed Investment Act (MIA), it is timely to consider its impact. Our prediction that the new regime would be less easy for f...

Financial planning

I remember, when discretionary master trusts were becoming popular in the mid-nineties, business development managers (BDMs) employed by fund managers were concerned abou...

Financial planning

The notion of “young turks” being given huge amounts of money to play with appears to be a myth in world of funds management the world over. However, each market has its ...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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