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Financial planning

Active managers across a range of sharemarket categories failed to beat their respective indexes in the last quarter....

Financial planning

Lack of consistency in fund name conventions remains a significant issue, with labels such as ‘balanced’ and ‘growth’ often meaning very different...

Editorial

With the debate between active and index funds continuing to gather momentum, Benjamin Levy examines the role of both strategies in a post GFC climate....

Funds management

Research house Morningstar has placed the Fidelity Global Equities Fund 'on hold' following the company’s announcement about the departure of its portfolio manager,...

People & Products

Anthony Serhan appointed CEO of Morningstar's Australian and New Zealand operations....

Financial planning

Tarrants was not the only financial planning firm to recommend clients invest in the Astarra Strategic Fund, and those recommendations were made following sound due dilig...

Financial planning

Criticisms by van Eyk Research chief Mark Thomas of the levels of scrutiny being applied by research houses have sparked a strong response from rival research houses, wri...

Editorial

It is now clear that the failure of many fund managers to appropriately navigate the global financial crisis has caused many investors to question the ultimate value they...

Financial planning

Morningstar has begun publishing qualitative analyst research on Australian-offered exchange-traded funds (ETFs)....

Financial planning

The chief executive of van Eyk Research, Mark Thomas, has fired a broadside at the Australian investment research industry, criticising his peers for failing to apply hig...

Financial planning

Financial planners and dealer groups rank Lonsec as preferred ratings house on back of its research quality, client service and user-friendliness. Mike Taylor reports....

Top 100

Money Management's Top 100 Dealer Groups survey reveals Van Eyk Research as dealer groups' research house of choice, while Lonsec and Morningstar maintain broad market re...

Financial planning

Platinum International Brands global share fund was the best performing managed fund in the June quarter - one of the very few that achieved a positive return....

Funds management

The take up of exchange traded funds (ETFs) is still low in the adviser community, despite their increasing use by direct and self-managed super fund investors....

Financial planning

Amid falling expense ratios and growing competition, delegates at the Morningstar Investment Conference questioned the viability of some ETF products and the logic of inv...

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