FUND MANAGERS
Financial planning
If there is one trend when it comes to investment products and vehicle, it seems that 2004 will see a shift away from traditional managed funds. FREYA PURNELL reports....
Editorial
Past performance is no indicatior of future performance is an oft qouted statement so then why is there any emphasis placed on it by fund managers and financial planners....
Editorial
Should we be really happy with a return of 7 per cent? DOMINIC McCORMICK says if we took currency more seriously, we could expect to get considerably more....
Financial planning
AMP has revamped its fledgling non-super AMP Flexible Lifetime Investments product, which was launched in June 2003, by expanding the offering to include 47 different inv...
Financial planning
From almost a standing start, Capstone Financial Planning has grown rapidly to earn a place on our list of Fastest Growing Independent Dealers....
Financial planning
Aurora Funds Management (AFM) – the brainchild of former Challenger International executives Alistair Davidson, Simon Lindsay, Hugh Latimer and Richard Matthews – came in...
Financial planning
How a rating house conducts its research has been a contentious issue for some time, but as Jason Spits writes, fund managers are still seeking an open and wide-ranging p...
Financial planning
An industry working party into soft dollar payments has called for the removal of a number of common forms of inducements in its recommendations announced today....
Financial planning
ING Australia will reverse the trend to move into retail with the launch of a wholesale version of its retail Tax Effective Income Trust tomorrow following the fund’s str...
Financial planning
Praemium Portfolio Services has struck a deal with InvestmentLink to offer advisers consolidated reporting and online transactions across all platforms and fund managers....
People & Products
Research house Assirt has signed former Colonial First State manager for institutional account management, Mark Hyde, as business development manager to head up its exter...
Funds management
Fund managers remain cautious in their outlook for investment markets this year despite rising levels of confidence stemming from the turnaround in equity market performa...
Financial planning
“Smart” financial planners will have made New Year’s Resolutions to change the way they run their business to meet consumer and regulatory expectations, according to Pres...
Financial planning
A raft of high profile financial planners and industry figures have launched a scathing attack on the funds management industry for a list of deficiencies they say are a ...
Editorial
Financial forecasting is so often wrong, says Robert Keavney, that it is about as useful as reading tea leaves....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...