INTERNATIONAL EQUITIES

Financial planning

Colonial First State will offer wholesale pricing on its investment platform FirstChoice with an average total fee of 1 per cent....

Financial planning

The Australian funds management industry is moving towards $1 trillion in funds under management after passing the $700 billion mark in the latest figures released by res...

Financial planning

Perpetual Investments has taken out the top prize in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award and has also been named as winner in the Australian equiti...

Funds management

Managed funds research house Morningstar is claiming managed funds are able to beat any given benchmark but few do so, due to a lack of manager skill....

Financial planning

Skandia has become the first customer in Australia to sign-up to Morningstar’s Portfolio X-Ray tool - an instrument that details fund aggregate portfolio asset allocation...

Financial planning

Hunter Hall International has joined the long list of companies to establish a listed investment company (LIC) today with the launch of its previously flagged $200 millio...

Financial planning

A collection of positive ratings have been bestowed by research house Assirt on fund managers AXA and ABN Amro, with most of their fund sectors and management capabilitie...

Funds management

Fund managers remain cautious in their outlook for investment markets this year despite rising levels of confidence stemming from the turnaround in equity market performa...

Editorial

Platinum Capital Management was one of the few managers able to achieve good inflows in international equities over a period of poor market performance....

Financial planning

Shareholders of listed investment company Bentley Equities - previously BT Global Asset Management - will indirectly vote early in the new year on whether to appoint Cons...

Financial planning

The good times appear to be rolling again for Australian and international share managers according to the latest data released by InTech Financial Services....

Funds management

Australian equities were the stand-out performer when compared to other asset classes in the month of October, after the S&P 200/ASX finished up 3.2 per cent....

Superannuation

Australia’s best-performing super funds recently have been those with a higher than average allocation towards property and minimal exposure to international equities, wr...

Financial planning

Listed investment company Bentley Equities - previously BT Global Asset Management - has flagged a move back into active investing with shareholders to vote on the appoin...

Financial planning

Almost every ethical investment fund established over the past three and a half years has failed to gain traction in the domestic market according to new data released by...

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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