FUNDS MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

In an attempt to boost the performance of its funds management business, Colonial First State is about to set up a new outsourcing deal with a major global player....

Financial planning

St George bank was the hottest retail fund manager in 2004, growing its funds under management faster than any other competitor in the retail market....

Financial planning

The arrival of the Financial Services Reform Act in March last year engendered mixed feelings among those working in the financial services industry. At the corporate end...

Financial planning

APN Funds Management has secured platform specialist John Hyslop as its new national sales and distribution manager....

Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, boosted by an outperforming funds management division and solid growth in home loans and other personal and business lending, has post...

Financial planning

Former Advance Asset Management boss Stephen Lam has re-emerged more than a year after leaving the St George group, accepting a newly created chief investment officer rol...

Editorial

A year is a long time in funds management – and even some of our investment experts were surprised by the way markets, asset classes and investment vehicles gained or wan...

Financial planning

Corporate cop, fraud detective, consumer advocate, journalist and even financial planner. In a rare and exclusive interview, Chris Cuffe talks to BRUCE MADDEN about the m...

Policy & Regulation

The push for fund managers to report after-tax performance figures has been backed by the Morningstar research group, which has revealed plans to begin tracking post-tax ...

Editorial

The good times keep rolling for Macquarie Bank which, thanks to improved market conditions and an active merger and acquisitions climate, today announced a 17 per cent in...

Financial planning

St George Bank-owned Ascalon Capital Managers has acquired an equity stake of up to 46 per cent in Alleron Investment Management to bring the number of boutique fund mana...

Financial planning

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has swooped on former authorised representatives of a funds management and stockbroking group after learning that ill...

Financial planning

Australian Unity director and head of funds management John Linehan is set to leave the group in mid-September, to be replaced by a yet-to-be-named successor who will be ...

Financial planning

John Wilkinson talks to HSBC chief executive Barry Sheehan and chief investment officer Jon Taylor about the challenges of turning around the fortunes of the fund manager...

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has attributed its 28 per cent rise in net profit for the financial year just ended to resurgent equity markets, improved general and l...

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