FUND MANAGER

Financial planning

Australian Unity has linked with a number of prominent portfolio managers to set up a boutique funds management group that will specialise in absolute return fixed intere...

Financial planning

Fund manager performance and investment style consistency have been identified as key factors in attracting fund flows, however manager reputation also has a strong influ...

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager MFS Group is to join forces with Gold Coast-based holiday accommodation group, Breakfree, to create a diversified property group with a market cap o...

Financial planning

The investment management arm of Australian Unity has flagged that it will expand its product range early in 2005, both through in-house development and possible joint ve...

Funds management

Rivkin Financial Services’ newly appointed board has moved quickly to impose its plans for the group by allocating $6 million of the firm’s cash reserves to Sydney-based ...

Financial planning

MMC Asset Management has provided an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following an investigation into unsolicited of...

Financial planning

Below are the full results of Money Management’s exclusive poll on attitudes to the soft dollar code released by the Financial Planning Association and the Investment and...

Funds management

The term emerging markets tends to invoke images of economic meltdown, high volatility and risk. But strong returns from the asset class in 2003 redefine these stereotype...

Editorial

The labels ‘value’ and ‘growth’ are simplifications of styles which are much more complex, writes Robert Keavney....

Financial planning

Craig Phillips discovers that currency is a key consideration when it comes to investing in global equities....

Financial planning

Count Financial has bought the planning software already used by most of its advisers, Interact, from IOOF Investment Management after the latter opted to sell the packag...

Financial planning

Macquarie has joined a limited number of platform providers that are rebating fund manager volume discounts back to clients....

Financial planning

The merger of SAI and TeysMcMahon has seen both parties bring complementary skills to the table – and more than double their funds under management. John Wilkinson report...

Financial planning

So you thought platforms were a steady business? Not on your life. It has been a year of movers and shakers, writes Ross Kelly....

Funds management

Colonial First State has signed an exclusive deal to take research from global property specialists Colliers International, in a move that will also result in Colliers be...

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