GLOBAL EQUITIES
Financial planning
Swiss-based investment manager Vontobel Asset Management announced this week that it had passed a milestone in Australia with assets under management exceeding $1 billion...
Funds management
Australian financial advisers plan to increase client allocations to global, favouring managed funds over direct equities, according to a Zurich survey....
Funds management
Australians are highly allocated to local equities and need to re-evaluate the opportunities that exist on the global market....
Funds management
Investors need to maintain a total return perspective when allocating to global listed infrastructure strategies, Morningstar's latest sector review found....
Financial planning
Apostle Asset Management this week confirmed the launch of its new product into the market - the Apostle Dundas Global Equity Fund....
Funds management
With Australian interest rates likely to continue falling, investors should consider reallocating out of cash and into global equities, according to Threadneedle head of ...
Funds management
Two former Hunter Hall global equity portfolio managers have formed a new boutique funds management business, Morphic Asset Management....
Editorial
While three key global equities markets still face trouble, there has been a major shift in investor behaviour towards this sector. Benjamin Levy reports investors are mo...
Superannuation
UBS Australia will soon launch a direct-to-member superannuation platform which the investment bank claims would be an alternative to SMSFs....
Funds management
The market volatility that characterised much of 2011 proved a key decider in the Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year global equities long/short category, wi...
Financial planning
New investment product Macquarie Step has been placed on Macquarie's wrap platform five months after its launch, the group has announced....
Financial planning
Money Management and Lonsec have again seen a close race to the finals in this year's Fund Manager of the Year awards, with boutique managers doing the sector proud....
Financial planning
Potential earnings from equity investments are exaggerated, according to Dr Jamil Baz, who said the financial crisis has barley begun....
Funds management
van Eyk Research has sent out a word of caution to investors in global equities, warning them that fund managers who performed well in last year's risk-averse markets cou...
Funds management
Australia's two-speed economy is helping to boost the return rate of local equities, but global equities are presenting more opportunities through technology and consumpt...
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