FUND MANAGER

Financial planning

Portfolio Partners is the first Australian fund manager to sign up to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global scheme co-ordinated by the United Nations ...

Financial planning

US fund manager LSV has stated that it will not launch another Australian fund once its initial offering has been completed....

Financial planning

Diversified financial services business AVFM has reached an in-principle agreement to acquire 50.01 per cent of boutique value funds manager Armytage from Treasury Group....

Financial planning

Wrap administration provider Praemium Portfolio Services has announced its intention to list on the Australian stock exchange through an $18 million initial public offeri...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services will facilitate the establishment of a new Australian equities boutique to be run by the three key portfolio managers who walked out on Merr...

Financial planning

Australian Funds Marketing has picked up its fourth overseas fund manager to represent in Australia....

Financial planning

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Rate the raters

Fund managers have again been given the opportunity to give their frank but anonymous assessment on the research houses which so frequently determine how the financial se...

Financial planning

Much of the value of having a research house rate a financial product comes in the way of their perceived independence and their ability to offer a completely objective v...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s has placed four Challenger small and micro cap funds ‘on hold’ following the resignation of senior portfolio manager James Ring....

Financial planning

Fund managers have confirmed that the major research houses are still capable of significantly influencing their businesses, with 50 per cent expressing the view that res...

Financial planning

Macquarie has launched a new property fund that will invest in the agricultural sector. However, the fund manager will be buying farms, land and related agricultural buil...

Funds management

Research house Morningstar has not lifted its ‘avoid’ rating on Colonial First States’ global property securities fund, despite the Commonwealth Bank-owned fund manager a...

Financial planning

The wealth management industry is ripe for consolidation according to fund manager Ausbil Dexia, who also predicted that the strong returns on the Australian market would...

Financial planning

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is cracking down on conflicts of interest and the use of commissions to improve the profile of the industry, and increasingly con...

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The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has confirmed the industry funding levy for the 2024–25 financial year, and how much licensees can expect to pay....

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