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...
Deutsche Funds Management (DFM) is about to launch what it believes are Australia's first themed international funds....
Macquarie Technology Funds Management and Acer Capital Australia have launched a $30 million venture capital fund....
Technology stocks are generally not overvalued if evaluated in terms of the longer-term changes that are occurring to the economy....
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...
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...
Tower Asset Management's forte in Australian equities has helped it win $715 million in new money to manage lately. ...
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/...
From a friendly society tradition, IOOF funds management operation has emerged as a business in its own right. ...
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 ...
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...
Performance track record is the common starting point for both retail and wholesale fund management appointments. Industry publications such as Money Management and Perso...
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...
I remember, when discretionary master trusts were becoming popular in the mid-nineties, business development managers (BDMs) employed by fund managers were concerned abou...
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 ...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...