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Financial planning

Merrill Lynch’s recent foray into Australian small caps investment management is already paying dividends, with its most recent release to the Australian market attractin...

Financial planning

Direct investment company Explorer Group has taken a strategic stake in boutique fund manager Above the Index Asset Management and gained the services of industry stalwar...

Financial planning

Genesys Wealth Advisers have set up a separate division to cater for its richest clients and attract other multi-millionaires away from private banks and specialist bouti...

Funds management

Research house Standard & Poor’s has finally finished its assessment of the new faces in charge of building most of Colonial First State’s Australian Equities funds, and ...

Financial planning

Australian fund managers spend a lot of time and money wooing financial advisers with junkets, increasingly complex products and, of course, much-debated trail commission...

Financial planning

Most of Colonial First State’s Australian equities funds have been given an ‘on hold’ rating by research house Standard & Poor’s due to the departure of a key staff membe...

People & Products

The departure of the head of BT’s listed property team, Antoinette Platter, has not resulted in any ratings downgrades, but will do little to boost the fund manager’s cur...

Financial planning

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Financial planning

MLC has strayed further down the road of “over-diversification” in adding a ninth Australian equities manager to its portfolio, a Morningstar analyst has said....

People & Products

Credit Suisse Asset Management has suffered another blow to its struggling Australian equities capabilities, with the departure of group head Peter Sartori prompting one ...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s has removed the ‘hold’ rating it placed on Portfolio Partners’ concentrated Australian equity fund, the Elite Opportunities Trust....

Financial planning

Investors are too desensitised to terrorism for yesterday’s attacks on London to have any major impact on investment markets, according to industry participants....

Financial planning

Zenith Investment Partners has placed a sell rating on Portfolio Partners’ Elite Opportunities Trust following last month’s resignation of Chris Kourtis as portfolio mana...

Financial planning

Absolute return fund manager HFA Asset Management has attracted over four times as much money into the second instalment of its capital protected ‘Octane’ fund of funds a...

Financial planning

Portfolio Partners’ Richard Dixon will succeed Chris Kourtis as portfolio manager of the ‘high conviction’ Elite Opportunities Trust, following yesterday’s resignation of...

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