fund managers

Financial planning

A new ASIC survey reveals investors and consumers are largely sceptical when it comes to the integrity of financial advisers, while some of the other industry gatekeepers...

Financial planning

Planners expect too much, say researchers

Some sections of the financial planning industry do not have a full understanding of what research houses do and to what extent their ratings can be relied upon. ...

Policy & Regulation

Cross-border regulatory agreements to manage tax avoidance

Government and ASIC strike deals to combat tax evasion and supervise international fund managers. ...

Funds management

Infrastructure assets make up ground since GFC

The global infrastructure securities sector has largely recovered from the losses experienced during the global financial crisis, delivering equity-like returns with lowe...

Rate the raters

Fund managers and research houses - a cold war thaw?

Between financial planners and fund managers stand research houses vetting products as they come to market, often to the chagrin of fund managers who have come to rely on...

Rate the raters

Research houses stand their ground

They may have expanded their services, but research houses are not about to give fund managers a free pass to market. Jason Spits reports....

Rate the raters

Rate the raters 2013

Money Management asked fund managers once again what they thought about the research houses which rate their products....

Editorial

Why boutique fund managers are currently sitting pretty

A boutique fund manager won this year’s Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year award. Is this a reflection of the way the market is behaving and the nature of t...

Editorial

What price are Australian investors paying for short-termism?

Do Australians take too short-term a view of investments? Is there a tendency for knee-jerk reactions and little consideration for the long-term? A Money Management round...

Funds management

Fund manager capacity restrictions impact super

Australian Super reveals it will be paying $500 million in fees to external managers around the time it reaches $100 billion in AUM....

Funds management

Benchmark beating irrelevant to outcomes based investors

Fund managers investing to outperform benchmarks are irrelevant to end investors as managers often stray from their own investment objectives and do not meet the returns ...

Editorial

Weighing up the benefits and risks of multi-manager funds

As advisers become increasingly time-poor, multi-manager funds seem to have emerged as an ‘all-in-one’ solution they need for their clients. But as Benjamin Levy reports,...

Editorial

Why international equities are back in favour

Investing in equities offshore has for the past few years been a quick way to add some negatives to a balance sheet, and even the most hardened investors found the going ...

Editorial

Traps for the unwary global equities investor

While investing offshore is beginning to look attractive once again, even the experts recognise there are potential problems for the unwary among the opportunities, and t...

Editorial

Fund manager performance: market uncertainty makes for testing times

Although they haven’t exactly broken out the champagne, life has become a lot easier for fund managers over the past 12 months. Janine Mace examines the implications for ...