FUND MANAGER

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager MFS Group is set to list on the Australian Stock Exchange via a ‘back-door’ listing after announcing plans to merge with a publicly floated investme...

Financial planning

What do the Mile High Club, the Grinch and financial planning have in common? Trust Nick Bruining to know the answer....

Editorial

Does slow and steady win the race or is it all about a sprint to time the market? A new research report has the answer. Liam Egan reports....

Financial planning

The value of the US dollar has reached critical levels and could start to impact on markets, US-based Principal Global Investors president Jim McCaughan told investors du...

Financial planning

Pengana Capital will announce the launch of a new small companies division early next week as the boutique fund manager continues its strategy of adding specialist offeri...

Financial planning

The small caps sector has reached its peak and will be unable to sustain its current high level of performance, a new report has warned....

Financial planning

St George Bank-owned Ascalon Capital Managers has acquired an equity stake of up to 46 per cent in Alleron Investment Management to bring the number of boutique fund mana...

Financial planning

Macquarie has won back to back flags in the 13th annual Assirt Research Service Level Awards, taking out both prizes for best platform provider and fund manager for the s...

Financial planning

Financial planners who receive payments for using investment platforms will face tougher disclosure requirements under new guidelines being considered by the Financial Pl...

Financial planning

Van Eyk has moved to deflect attention from a spate of recent departures to competing research group, Mercer Investment Consulting, by announcing a new head of distributi...

Financial planning

Size is becoming increasingly irrelevant for financial advisers, who are shunning the big institutional fund managers in favour of boutique operations....

Financial planning

Some small cap funds have reopened their doors in recent times, but others think the sector is on the way down. Liam Egan reports....

Financial planning

Growth orientated super funds have had a bumpy start to the 2004/05 financial year but ended the September quarter in positive fashion after global shares markets, Austra...

Financial planning

Research group Lonsec’s scepticism as to the capacity of domestic fund managers to establish thriving global equity arms has prompted it to place Perpetual Trustees Austr...

Funds management

Australian fund managers could be missing out on a golden opportunity by neglecting commodities and other global resource stocks, according to an industry review of the s...

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