FUND MANAGERS

Financial planning

Financial planners are facing many challenges in the next couple of years due to the increasing use of technology in the industry. Those planners who embrace the technolo...

Financial planning

Fees for transaction-based services will continue to fall as fund managers go direct and the financial planning industry builds on the service concept, says Skip Parish f...

Financial planning

Small to medium-sized financial planning groups have an uncertain future in the next five years as the bigger organisations come to dominate the industry, says consultant...

Financial planning

Prudential’s Egg online banking unit plans to start selling 169 mutual funds from 12 different companies over the Internet, the first fund supermarket for UK investors. ...

Financial planning

Performance incentives used to be the bastion of the senior executive, but now the concept is filtering through to funds management groups....

Financial planning

A swag of fund managers have unleashed technology based funds in recent weeks in the wake of Colonial’s hugely successful offering....

Financial planning

Australian fund managers are beginning to cash in on investor exuberance in technology-related stocks. Jason Spits wraps up the dash for cash run by our biggest fund mana...

Funds management

While India may not be the first port of call for fund managers looking to expand overseas, some managers are already looking to cement their fledgling positions there....

Financial planning

There is little doubt that ASIC’s decision to remove one of the last hurdles for fully fledged electronic prospectuses is good news for fund managers....

Financial planning

It has been a sluggish start to the new year for Australia’s fund managers, accord-ing to the latest InTech Financial Services market survey....

Financial planning

Seminars can be the simplest way of marketing your practice to prospective clients, but you need to plan them carefully to get the best results. Jason Spits reports. For...

Funds management

Short form prospectuses and electronic lodgement for securities based investments are about to become a reality....

Funds management

It has been a sluggish start to the new year for Australia’s fund managers, accord-ing to the latest InTech Financial Services market survey....

Superannuation

Grenfell Securities is looking to beef up its presence in the self-directed retiree market with the launch of a fixed interest product....

Financial planning

Grenfell Securities is looking to beef up its presence in the self-directed retiree market with the launch of a fixed interest product....

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

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