FUND MANAGERS

Editorial

As part of their value-add, financial planners are increasingly putting in the time to build direct share portfolios for their clients. Are direct investments the new coo...

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Financial planning

Equity Trustees has signed up to specialist cross-border transaction network Calastone....

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Funds management

Industry commentators have tried to outline an approach by which the boutique funds industry can avoid being sidelined by the rise in self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and...

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Financial planning

Some investors want to "dip their toes" into the investment world by comparing their asset allocation and performance with those of their peers....

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Funds management

Local Government Super has awarded a $90 million mandate to Hermes Fund Managers to launch its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy....

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Funds management

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released an updated investor guide on unlisted property schemes, urging investors to seek financial advice...

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Funds management

Financial planners are ditching direct equities for managed funds, according to Zenith head of sales and marketing John Nicoll....

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Funds management

ASIC is seeking penalties against the unlicensed operators of more than 12 offshore managed investment funds, which were found to comprise a single unregistered managed i...

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Funds management

As investors look to diversify their portfolios, Certitude Global Investment chief executive Craig Mowll says he has seen a renewed interest in fund managers taking an ac...

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Funds management

Investors making the decision to allocate to listed property are looking beyond a single-strategy portfolio to meet their financial needs and want to diversify across a l...

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Funds management

A structural change in investor attitudes means fund managers are now competing in a "savings pool" rather than an "investment pool", according to BT Investment Managemen...

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Funds management

Global listed property has outperformed both Australian listed property and international shares over the five years to 31 August, as investors seek high yield and a stea...

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Funds management

Fund managers have been accused of neglecting the needs of retail clients and catering to the institutional market....

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Superannuation

Uncertainty is driving short-termism among fund managers and has cast doubt on the viability of growth from underlying structural trends, according to Nicky Stafford, por...

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Funds management

Investment managers expect a sustainable turnaround in the Australian share market by the end of 2013....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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