FUND MANAGERS

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...

Financial planning

Rothschild has launched two ethical investment funds which aim to outshine other funds on the market in terms of transparency of ethical bias to investors....

Financial planning

March offered little joy to investors and fund managers looking for positive signs of a market turnaround....

Financial planning

Colonial First State is throwing its financial weight behind Australian financial planning technology developer Avanteos....

Financial planning

AMP has just poured out a new independent subsidiary liquid.co.nz, which is the New Zealand version of AMP Direct....

Financial planning

Forget wrap accounts, screen scrapers and Internet broking, the next big battle in the financial service industry will take place on the financial planner’s desktop....

Financial planning

Fund managers have picked up a large slice of the distribution available in the rush to get product under the noses of planners and clients but a number have chosen not t...

Financial planning

The ASX is playing down reports that it is proposing to make thousands of managed funds available directly to investors....

Financial planning

APIR Certificates has unveiled a smart card it hopes to establish as the standard online security device for the financial services industry....

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MARKET INSIGHTS

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...

1 week 1 day ago

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

2 weeks 4 days ago