FUNDS MANAGEMENT

Funds management

A group of local and international investors have praised the current environment as optimal for retail investment in alternatives. ...

Funds management

Funds management director Caroline Saunders made redundant after strategic review of Barclays’ funds management operations...

Financial planning

Perpetual-Trust merger to create largest trust services provider in the Australian market....

Funds management

Funds management and third party marketing and distribution firm Winston Capital Partners has made two senior appointments and signed up two managed funds in line with it...

Funds management

Merger and acquisition (M&A) activity is tipped to rise in 2013, with 10 per cent of fund managers planning to acquire another business in the next five years, a report s...

Accounting

ASIC data reveals the accountants’ limited licensing regime is already gaining traction....

Funds management

Russell Investments has released a research paper that explores whether using a fixed price for FX transactions provides the best outcomes for investors....

Funds management

Boutique fund manager Aura Funds Management (AFM) has formed a strategic alliance with McGrath Estate Agents in a bid to enter the Australian market with Significant Inve...

Superannuation

Super funds which lose members to SMSFs are unlikely to see them come back....

Funds management

Many investors take reporting season figures at their face value - which could lead to missed opportunities, according to Hyperion Asset Management CIO, Mark Arnold...

Funds management

Australian hedge funds have been given a clean bill of health by ASIC largely because most investors are institutional....

Funds management

Clestus Weerappah has been sentenced to four years jail over his role in the collapse of property development group Dollarforce Financial Services (DFS) in 2009....

Superannuation

Industry super funds have the opportunity to move into the platform space, but administrative and cost discrepancies need to be ironed out first, stakeholders believe....

Financial planning

Australia’s growing “class action mentality” and the emergence of litigation funders have created fertile ground for claims against participants in the financial services...

Financial planning

Take-over tussle for Trust continues as Perpetual ramps up offer....

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