Macquarie Funds Management and van Eyk Research have partnered to launch a range of pre-blended multi-manager investments called the van Eyk Blueprint Series of Funds....

We are all aware that reduced levels of investment returns will accelerate the rate at which clients are demanding lower overall fees for their managed investments....

When is a master trust not a master trust? When it behaves like a fund manager. Peter Worcester reports....

Schroder Investment Management Australia (Schroders) will target only retail and master trust markets with its Australian equity funds after cutting off institutional man...

Van Eyk Research has one a contract to act as the asset consultant over $6.7 billion worth of funds managed by Zurich Financial Services....

Platforms have long been a key method to access a range of investments and as JASON SPITS reports, rather than being brought down by recent markets, they have continued t...

The opportunity to take an equity stake is one of the most important features advisers look for when choosing a master trust or wrap. But could it leave the financial pla...

ANYONE who knows anything about the business of financial services knows that master trust and wrap platforms have risen from almost nought a decade ago to become the dom...

The value of BT to a big bank like Westpac lay in its wrap account platforms and that, argues LEO WASSERCUG, is a sign of the times....

SEPARATELY managed account (SMA) provider Direct Portfolio will move beyond its direct investor approach and seek financial planners who are willing to use the product wi...

Boutique fund manager Investors Mutual Ltd (IML) will close off its Australian Smaller Companies Fund at the end of the month, in line with a desire to remain small and f...

The complex nature of hedge funds should not stop advisers from recommending them, says DOMINIC McCORMICK....

The Top 100 Dealers Survey is punctuated by the moves of dealer groups, which are often the result of large wallets and large deals. SIMON SEGAL looks at what went down b...

My first assignment as a journo on Money Management in 1997 was to cover the launch of BT’s wrap platform. At the time, the industry hadn’t heard of wrap. Which was just ...