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...
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...
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...
Former HSBC Asset Management head Barry Sheehan has been appointed chief executive officer of Tyndall Asset Management, ending months of speculation on a replacement for ...
Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has delivered an upbeat assessment of hybrid property products....
Credit Suisse Asset Management chief executive Andrew McKinnon has ended an 11-year stint at the Switzerland-based fund manager’s Australian operation....
Boutique planning firm Capstone Financial Planning has cracked the Sydney market, recruiting a practice established by former RetireInvest assistant general manager David...
Retail investors can now put their nest eggs into fish tanks with listed property fund manager and subsidiary of the MFS group, MFS Living and Leisure, entering into a $1...
Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...
Research house Lonsec has taken the UBS Property Securities Fund off ‘fund watch’ and reinstated its previous rating of ‘highly recommended’ following the appointment of ...
The longstanding legal dispute between Equity Trustees Limited and the vendors of the Wealthpac Master Fund has been resolved....
The glory days of the boutique fund manager are over. Investment managers from the big end of town, particularly BT, were the best performing managers of Australian equit...
Macquarie Bank has signed an American fund manager that invests in global property securities to the fifth instalment of its Professional Series....
Australian Unity Investments has formed a joint venture with boutique manager Platypus Asset Management to offer Australian retail equity products....
While 2004 was the year of the boutique, 2005 was, well, the year of the boutique....
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...