FUND MANAGERS
Financial planning
The explosion of ethical funds has come at a time of increasing interest and the search for new sectors in which to invest. Mark Watmore examines the growth of this marke...
Funds management
Despite a flurry of activity hedge funds appear to have gone off the boil. John Wilkinson takes a look at what slowed down this sector and when it will rebound....
Editorial
Asset consultants, research houses and financial planners sometimes argue that fund managers rarely outperform their benchmark index. The question is then asked why we pa...
Financial planning
Fund managers are divided over whether they should help the Government fund the Office of the Retirement Commissioner....
Funds management
Since the earliest days of the financial planning industry, fund managers have treated financial planners to all manners of luxury. ...
Financial planning
In the year of the tech-wreck in global equity markets, declining interest rates and a slowing global economy, those fund managers who stuck to investment fundamentals ha...
Financial planning
Selling short has been the key to Platinum Asset Management’s winning performance in 2000, says investor services manager Liz Norman....
Editorial
The world over it has been a particularly volatile period in fixed-interest markets. ...
Editorial
The success of Credit Suisse and UBS Asset Management in this year’s Money Management Assirt Fund Manager of the Year awards marks a significant turning point for the Aus...
Financial planning
The managed funds and master trusts industry could save up to $700 million per year if it adopted an information exchange, which would provide standardised electronic dat...
Financial planning
The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) says it is building a back office system to simplify transactions between fund managers....
Financial planning
Armed with a preliminary discussion paper from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and some overseas research, it is timely to consider the implications of the ASX’s tent...
Financial planning
Fairfax owned online information site f2 has entered the online financial services market to relaunch tradingroom.com.au, with new partner, Macquarie....
Financial planning
The collapse in the value of technology stocks now outweighs the crash of 1929 on Wall Street, according to van Eyk Research managing director Steven van Eyk....
Policy & Regulation
It wasn’t that long ago that news of the Ralph report dominated the financial press. Contentious issues for our industry included the initial consideration of treating co...
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Podcast
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...