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Financial planning

Van Eyk Research has overhauled its ratings systems, adding some new fund manager ratings and tightening the definitions of the others....

Financial planning

Sealcorp fuels St George’s fire

St George’s wealth management business contributed almost 20 per cent more to the group’s profit before tax this year than in 2004, on the back of strong investment marke...

Financial planning

HFA increases institutional impact

HFA Asset Management’s conscious effort to become more proactive with institutional investors has begun to pay dividends with the winning of a $60 million international s...

Financial planning

Six of the best for Skandia

Skandia will add six new funds to its investment menus on all products, except corporate superannuation, in response to market trends identified during the firm’s most re...

Financial planning

Portfolio Partners forms responsible alliance

Fund manager Portfolio Partners is the latest investment company to get more serious about going green, having signed a research partnership with the Sustainable Investme...

Financial planning

Colonial expected to make changes to funds team

For the second time in a week investors have been told to hold off on investing in funds managed by Colonial First State, sparking expectations of radical changes to the ...

Funds management

Boutique puts direct property on platforms

Boutique property fund manager APN Funds Management is bidding to give advisers access to direct property through platforms with the launch of a new fund....

Editorial

Bridges win boosts parent’s profits

Tower Group spin-off Australian Wealth Management has dramatically lifted its profit forecast following news that the NSW Government would not appeal a decision to excuse...

Superannuation

Retirement date funds target ‘do-it-for-me’ clients

Investors will be able to choose their target date of retirement, rather than a preferred asset allocation, as part of a series of new funds that is counting on individua...

Editorial

Trust the key for fund managers

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Funds management

CFS Aussie equities funds downgraded

Research house Standard & Poor’s has finally finished its assessment of the new faces in charge of building most of Colonial First State’s Australian Equities funds, and ...

Financial planning

Merrill Lynch makes small/mid cap foray

Merrill Lynch Investment Managers today launched its third Australian equities fund, which will invest in a combination of small, mid and large caps stocks....

Funds management

(20-Jan-2005): St Helen’s erupts onto boutique scene

By any measure, it has been a successful 2004 for boutique fund manager St Helens Capital....

Funds management

(20-Jan-2005) Souls doses out the good investment medicine

What does a company better known for operating suburban Chemist shops know about funds management? Everything, if the predictions of researchers is anything to go by....

Funds management

(20-Jan-2005): The rise and rise of the boutiques

In the dark days of 2001-2002, when investment markets were in the doldrums, a dismal performance by the big institutional funds left a lot of planners and investors look...