FUND MANAGER

Financial planning

The Assirt group is continuing to push into the research of the burgeoning hedge fund sector, releasing its first ever rating of a single strategy hedge fund manager, K2 ...

Financial planning

The Treasury Group has linked up with the former chief investment officer at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Tim Ryan, to set up a new boutique funds management house....

Financial planning

FOR THE second year running Stephen van Eyk has secured a place in the Most Influential list, and deservedly so....

Funds management

Van Eyk Research has released its annual review on the balanced fund sector, finding an increase in managers adopting tactical asset allocation (TAA) strategies as well a...

Financial planning

The value of BT to a big bank like Westpac lay in its wrap account platforms and that, argues LEO WASSERCUG, is a sign of the times....

Financial planning

FORMER Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) chief executive Lynn Ralph has joined with the former chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commi...

Financial planning

BT FUNDS Management has given assurances that despite the poor performance of its Australian Equities fund it will not close the fund to new investors nor wind it up in t...

Financial planning

One of the major trends of this year has continued unabated with Zurich and Invesco becoming the next financial services groups to cut employee numbers in an effort to dr...

Financial planning

Credit Suisse Asset Management’s Australian equities products have maintained the confidence of Assirt, with the research house awarding the Swiss funds management group ...

Financial planning

ABN Amro’s systems of research and analysis give the fund manager an edge over many of its competitors, the Assirt research group has claimed....

Financial planning

Boutique fund manager Investors Mutual Ltd (IML) will close off its Australian Smaller Companies Fund at the end of the month, in line with a desire to remain small and f...

Editorial

The complex nature of hedge funds should not stop advisers from recommending them, says DOMINIC McCORMICK....

Financial planning

It is hard to fault BT Funds Management over its recent decision to rebate back to investors 0.5 per cent of their management fee on the BT Australian Share Fund for a si...

Editorial

ACTIVE managers use different investment styles with the aim of outperforming the market. In the US, ‘value’ and ‘growth’ are two of the key styles used by fund managers ...

Funds management

Investment consultant Dominic McCormick has linked up with the European based Gottex group to launch a new boutique funds management organisation....

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