FUND MANAGERS

Financial planning

Hungarian banks, chewable tobacco and other exotics are part of the stuff of global stock stories that excite these specialist managers....

Editorial

The class of 2005 in the Australian small and micro cap funds sector have been getting a reasonably good wrap of late – despite warnings about the end of a two-year bull ...

Funds management

The low unemployment levels driven by a buoyant share market and thriving economy, as well as an increased need to recruit compliance professionals following the implemen...

Financial planning

The establishment of the Commonwealth’s Future Fund, along with the ongoing implementation of the Federal Government’s Retirement Incomes Policy, has earned Federal Treas...

Financial planning

For the second time in a week investors have been told to hold off on investing in funds managed by Colonial First State, sparking expectations of radical changes to the ...

Editorial

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Financial planning

New AC Nielson research has found a marked fall in the number of Australians seeking professional investment advice over the past two years, even though client satisfacti...

Financial planning

Australian fund managers spend a lot of time and money wooing financial advisers with junkets, increasingly complex products and, of course, much-debated trail commission...

Funds management

Emerging markets offer investors stronger growth and less volatility than developed economies, according to a new report from van Eyk Research....

Funds management

Australia’s pool of funds management assets will almost triple in 10 years, enticing more global players to move in and compete with domestic groups, the country’s intern...

Financial planning

The financial services industry says the Federal Government went a long way yesterday to arresting fears that any proposed anti-money laundering legislation would heap un...

Funds management

The Australian funds management industry is continuing to experience good growth, but fund managers are going to have to do more to win the trust of investors, according ...

Funds management

The Federal Government has sought to assure fund managers that it will play a largely hands-off role in the investment decisions of its $16 billion Future Fund, but has a...

Financial planning

A little known financial services group has started a petition calling for fund managers to be hit with cash penalties for failing to release clients’ superannuation with...

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So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

4 months 3 weeks ago

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

5 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

7 months ago

Commonwealth Bank has formally dropped to zero advisers following LGT Crestone’s acquisition of its advice arm – some six years on from the Hayne royal commission. ...

3 weeks 5 days ago

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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