Colonial First State’s platform offerings are back to their best in the eyes of financial planners, taking the top two spots in Wealth Insights’ Service Level Report....

Financial advice in Australia is held back by regulation focused on selling and letter of the law compliance that ignores the client according to an industry veteran....

Magellan Financial Group has launched an ASX quoted version of its leading global equity fund and will offer it to the planners as an exchange traded managed fund....

Financial advisers’ fee structures abet “closet indexing” by fund managers, creating a clear conflict of interest between planners’ earnings and their clients’ best inter...

Planners are actively investing client funds in growth assets and making greater use of passive strategies but are calling on more information from fund managers....

Sean Fenton looks at the merit of long/short investment styles in today’s volatile markets. ...

Legal firm Hall and Wilcox is concerned Australian fund managers will find it tough to implement the new premium investor visa....

SQM has moved further to fill the void left by van Eyk, picking up the former research house’s deputy chief investment officer and head of research. ...

Portfolio strategies used by equity fund managers in Australia do not always match their stated investment philosophies, new research by the CIFR reveals....

The FSC welcomed the China-Australia free trade agreement, saying it will give fund managers direct access to China and boost the nations’ financial services trade....

Financial advisers should examine the ten year performance of fund managers as market failures and bubbles often take more than five years to full play out....

Lonsec has confirmed its purchase of van Eyk’s iRate business after weeks of speculation. ...

Up and coming research and investments house Zenith Investment Partners has bumped established players, Morningstar and Lonsec, from the top spot to become Money Manageme...

The FSI will not change anything and the status quo will be maintained, according to a finance/insurance broker....