FUND MANAGERS

Financial planning

As some of the gloss fades from dot.com stocks and the Internet, investors are increasingly turning to the potentially lucrative biotechnology market. But, as John Wilkin...

Financial planning

Virgin boss Richard Branson has confirmed what many in the industry have thought for years. Virgin is about to bring its brand of financial services distribution to Austr...

Financial planning

Strategic Investments Australia, the new holding group of the Strategic Super Master Plan, is performing due diligence on two small master trusts with a view to acquisiti...

Financial planning

Earnings growth from US equities will remain strong enough for good returns as that economy heads for a soft landing, according to Deutsche global chief investment office...

Financial planning

A cloud hangs over the business of providing outsourcing services for fund managers, following the decision by Macquarie Portfolio Services to close its wholesale outsour...

Financial planning

New Zealand’s funds management industry says overseas-based fund managers may snare most of the business for the Government’s proposed superannuation fund....

Financial planning

Strategic Investments Australia, the new holding group of the Strategic Super Master Plan, is performing due diligence on two small master trusts with a view to acquisiti...

Financial planning

Phillip Matthews has been named as the first permanent chief executive the Financial Planning and Insurance Advisers Association (FPIA)....

Funds management

Fund managers see IT development, customer service, investment management and custody as the biggest growth areas for outsourcing in the next 12 months, William M. Mercer...

Financial planning

US fund managers have taken advantage of laws allowing them to sell funds over the Internet using electronic signatures....

Financial planning

Skandia doesn’t do manufacturing and it doesn’t do retailing. Stuart Engel discovers exactly what it is the Swedish based financial services giant intends to do in Austra...

Financial planning

New Zealand’s funds management industry says overseas-based fund managers may snare most of the business for the Government’s proposed superannuation fund....

Financial planning

Last year I wrote an article I called “Regulation – friend or foe, crutch or protector” (<I>Money Management</I> retitled it “Is it really necessary to have more rules fr...

Financial planning

Fund managers have been given the green light to charge varying fees based on investment size by the investment watchdog....

Financial planning

Money Management congratulates the winners of our competition for subscribers to win a bottle of Penfolds Grange for the August 31 edition:...

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