GLOBAL EQUITIES
Editorial
Investors have long held a bias to investing at home and, as Lochiel Crafter writes, this is understandable but does not justify current portfolio weightings....
Financial planning
Why do some global managers hear music, and others just noise, when playing the international equities market? Glenn Poswell reports....
Financial planning
InvestorWeb has reacted to BT Funds Management’s decision to outsource its international equities management to Putnam by rating funds in this area with a buy recommendat...
Financial planning
First State Investments (UK) Ltd, the UK investment arm of Colonial First State Investments Group, has entered into an agreement that will see it directly market its own ...
Financial planning
The use of stock options as part of executives’ remuneration led to an unspoken pact between investors and corporation management that has exacerbated the current malaise...
Financial planning
The asset management arm of the BT group will be re-branded in the coming months to Principal Global Investors (PGI) as part of the global integration of Principal and BT...
Funds management
>AMP head of strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver says while emerging markets are generally out of investor favour, the asset class is geared to the global economy a...
Financial planning
The US economy will avoid recession as long as consumer spending continues at the same rate, says Perennial Investment Partners co-head of global equities Scott King....
Funds management
BNP Paribas Asset Management has listed Australia’s first actively managed Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s)....
Financial planning
The New York Stock Exchange will run a pilot program this year to test a global stock exchange, comprising ten of the world’s leading markets, including Australia. This G...
Financial planning
In the year of the tech-wreck in global equity markets, declining interest rates and a slowing global economy, those fund managers who stuck to investment fundamentals ha...
Financial planning
Deutsche Private Banking senior executive Paul Duncan has moved across to MLC Investment Management to take on the role of portfolio manager within its investment managem...
Financial planning
New Zealand domiciled managed funds investing in Australian and New Zealand equities have filled the majority of Morningstar's list of top ten performers for the quarter ...
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...