FUND MANAGERS

Financial planning

In a significant change to the structure of its operations, Tower Australia has appointed Russell Investment Group to run its multi-manager investment product business ar...

Funds management

A search for additional sources of alpha is pushing fund managers to increase their exposure to emerging markets, and take higher conviction positions in fewer stocks, ac...

Funds management

Australia’s property funds management industry has grown by 30 per cent, or $65 million, in funds under management since 2004, despite the number of funds available to in...

Financial planning

Equity Trustees EQT has boosted its responsible entity RE business by signing up Putnam and an additional two US fund managers entering the Australian market....

Financial planning

The new owner of Skandia, South African financial services firm Old Mutual, has identified growth as one of the major goals it hopes the platform provider’s Australian op...

Funds management

Australian property fund managers will increasingly look to the US for real estate opportunities, as investment in this asset class soars, according to Fiduciary Global A...

Superannuation

New research conducted by Mercer Oliver Wyman in the UK has identified four distinct life stages in the 50 plus age group, which it feels financial product providers will...

Financial planning

Chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, David Murray, has outlined that the Future Fund will not only act as a vehicle to meet the Government’s existing superannuati...

Financial planning

The unique process of equally combining quantitative and qualitative measures to construct portfolios has seen MIR finish first in the Australian equities - mid and large...

Financial planning

Convinced over time they will deliver returns in excess of the benchmark, researcher Zenith Investment Partners as added five products from the small companies sector to ...

Financial planning

AMP posted a 29 per cent jump in net cash inflows to $2.66 billion in the March quarter, and is flagging the strong run to continue in the wake of today’s Federal Budget ...

Financial planning

Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has introduced new measures to improve the transparency around fund ratings placed ‘on hold’....

Financial planning

It seems the sky is the limit for Advance Asset Management, which has announced that it is managing more than $7 billion of funds for retail and Australian investors....

Funds management

Macquarie Portfolio Management has expanded its range of hedge fund investment options, giving retail investors access to a global group of absolute return hedge fund man...

Rate the raters

Fund managers have again been given the opportunity to give their frank but anonymous assessment on the research houses which so frequently determine how the financial se...

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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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The FSCP has issued a written direction to an adviser who charged clients “extraordinary fees” for inappropriate and conflicted advice, as well as encouraged them to swit...

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ASIC has cancelled the AFSL of an advice firm associated with Shield and First Guardian collapses, and permanently banned its responsible manager. ...

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