FUNDS MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

BT Funds Management will face even further scrutiny of its acquisition by Westpac, with Australia’s major financial planning dealerships reviewing whether to pull their i...

Financial planning

Assirt associate director Anthony Serhan has left the research house on Friday of last week bringing the total number of departures from the group in recent months to fou...

Funds management

Advance Funds Management will launch an Australian Geared Equity Fund and an Australian Smaller Companies Fund this week to capitalise on increasing market demand for per...

People & Products

ROB Coombe started last week as the head of retail at BT Financial Group. He finished it as the most senior BT executive still standing following Westpac Bank’s decision ...

Editorial

Challenger International has attributed a 24 per cent rise in year-on-year profits to an increase in sales of annuity and funds management products....

Financial planning

Independent financial advisors (IFAs) in Britain are set to snatch more than 50 per cent of the local retail funds management market by 2006, in spite of legislation to d...

Financial planning

Michael Parsons has stepped down as chief executive officer of Invesco Australia, citing personal reasons as the driving force behind his decision to leave the company....

Financial planning

Three of Australia’s most influential investment research houses - van Eyk, Assirt and Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec) - have placed a blanket hold on BT Financial Group fun...

Funds management

The Commonwealth Bank has relied heavily on its funds management business to post an 11 per cent increase in its net profit to $2.7 billion today....

Financial planning

Some of the smaller players in the funds management business are recording the most impressive growth in fund inflows, with the latest market share report from Assirt sho...

Financial planning

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) licensing web will snare a growing number of unsuspecting professionals employed outside the realm of financ...

Financial planning

EQUITY Trustees Funds Management (EQTFM) has increased its existing range of funds with the development of three multi-sector funds; income, balanced and growth....

Editorial

Australia’s funds management community is in the midst of a dramatic slump in profits and revenue, the latest annual Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) ...

Financial planning

The Bendigo Bank is looking to buy up to 10 per cent of the share in IOOF holdings and will approach shareholders with an cash payment offer of $2.70 per share....

Funds management

Fund managers have thrown their support behind independent research trips with a number set to join a group of planners heading to the US and the UK later this year....

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