FUND MANAGER

Financial planning

Robert Harrison, chief executive of BNP Paribas Investment Partners Australia, has been selected to head the combined entity for Australia and New Zealand....

Financial planning

The administrators of Trio Capital, also known as Astarra Capital, have indicated all investments registered through National Australia Trustees are accounted for....

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Financial planning

Performance fees being charged by some fund managers in the Australian equities extension sector are excessive, and are being applied without appropriate benchmarks....

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Financial planning

Aberdeen kicks off the year with two key institutional mandates....

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Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s has released the ratings of funds in its multi-sector review, including 77 capabilities from 15 different fund managers across the wholesale and retail ...

Financial planning

The Commonwealth Bank has called for the retention of dealer group rebates and a self-regulatory approach to the removal of commissions from the financial planning indust...

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Funds management

Light of Day, an association for investors in the unlisted property sector, has been formed for those dissatisfied with bank lending practices....

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Financial planning

Well-known former ANZ Bank chief economist Saul Eslake has taken up a role on the investment advisory committee of Wingate Asset Management....

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Financial planning

Peer pressure and the fear of risking their careers is pushing many fund managers to maintain low tracking error against the index, leading to little difference between t...

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Funds management

Listed financial services company Snowball will acquire Officium Capital - a responsible entity of 14 funds - in a bid to take more control of the price charged by underl...

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Financial planning

A weaker global banking system is forcing businesses to seek credit elsewhere, which is creating opportunities for private credit internationally and in Australia, accord...

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Editorial

Investors with ethical sensitivities may prefer certified responsible investment funds, but do they really understand where their money is going and to what extent do the...

Funds management

Research has found advisers don't fully trust ratings houses that rely on fund manager payments as their main source of revenue....

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Funds management

A HSBC quarterly fund manager survey has stated that over half of fund managers hold a positive outlook about bonds, although investors may look towards reducing interest...

Editorial

Edwina Best and Amanda Rethus discuss the importance of researchers to the financial services industry and your business....

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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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A former Victorian financial adviser has been sentenced after stealing $4.4 million from clients, family and friends to feed his “raging gambling addiction”....

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A financial advice firm has been penalised $11 million in the Federal Court for providing ‘cookie cutter advice’ to its clients and breaching conflicted remuneration rule...

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