The consensus of thought on the current crisis of adviser credibility in financial planning seems to be “sit tight and ride out the storm”. But is it enough? Keith Peel r...
International rating and investment data group Standard & Poor’s (S&P) today formally launched Australian Fund Management Ratings - a rating and research tool aimed at fi...
Equities have been a stable of portfolios for investors for many years, but maybe it’s time to stay out of equities argues Tom Collins....
Morningstar has downgraded AMP’s overall manager rating from four to three stars, following a combination of downgrades to forward-looking qualitative ratings and declini...
Mercer Investment Consulting has launched a retail investment research platform targeted specifically at the financial planning market, in direct competition with other p...
Alternative investment fund manager Absolute Capital has made significant changes to its investment team, with group managing director Deon Joubert picking up the role of...
The industry is full of elephants, says Rob Keavney, but the elephants’ days are numbered....
Consistent performance combined with low volatility enabled Basis Capital to be rated the top InvestorWeb six star fund manager for hedge funds....
The jury may be out on the wisdom of putting clients into margin lending – but all the signs say that this will be one product that will see increasing demand in coming m...
InvestorWeb Research has named the managers it considers worthy of receiving its six star ratings and at the head of the pack is UBS Global Asset management (GAM) which h...
Macquarie Wrap Solutions has struck a deal with van Eyk Research to utilise the latter’s Blueprint series of funds across its two platforms - the high net worth Macquarie...
Two former IWL executives, David Wright and David Smythe, have launched a new research consulting business - Zenith Investment Partners - six months after being dismissed...
The Assirt research house has released a ‘strong’ rating for two fund managers to which BT Funds Management is now outsourcing its management in the areas of internationa...
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is pursuing court action against an individual it deems a serial securities offender, after alleging the man i...
Perpetual Investments has emerged as the strongest smaller companies fund manager in Morningstar’s new Australian Equities Smaller Companies qualitative sector strength r...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...