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Financial planning

Funds investing in local and global property securities and blend-style share funds were the dominant players among Australian managed funds launched during the past 12 m...

Financial planning

One of the better performing investment strategies employed by superannuation funds in 2006 were multi-sector options with high weightings to local shares, according to r...

Financial planning

Vanguard is continuing its push into Asia, with South Korea next in its sights....

Policy & Regulation

Vanguard Investments Australia has warned investors to be wary about the tax implications of high portfolio turnover in regard to the net returns they are expecting to re...

Superannuation

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Editorial

More and more planners chasing consistent returns are happy to blend indexed and non-indexed product. Why? Because it all comes back to the view that out performance invo...

Superannuation

Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are matching fund managers for investment performance, according to a survey by SMSF provider Multiport....

Editorial

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Financial planning

International research and ratings house Morningstar has acquired Aspect Huntley....

Financial planning

Two Gottex funds managed by Select Asset Management have been awarded a ‘highly recommended’ rating in a Morningstar survey of funds of hedge funds....

Funds management

Merrill Lynch Investment Management has recruited two senior analysts from Goldman Sachs JB Were, weeks after losing three of its Australian equities portfolio managers t...

Funds management

The 2006 Money Management Rating the Raters survey asked for feedback from fund managers about their experiences and dealings with the seven of the main researchers in th...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s has placed four Challenger small and micro cap funds ‘on hold’ following the resignation of senior portfolio manager James Ring....

Financial planning

Fund managers have confirmed that the major research houses are still capable of significantly influencing their businesses, with 50 per cent expressing the view that res...

Funds management

Lonsec is the first researcher to reinstate an ‘investment grade’ rating for Colonial First State’s (CFS) Australian property funds following the recruitment of two more ...

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