It’s currently fashionable to call financial planning ‘life planning’, but Tom Collins argues that is exactly what financial planning has always been....
There is a lot of interest at the moment in Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) - also known as Individually Managed Accounts - and their imminent coming of age....
The Macquarie Enhanced Fixed Interest Fund has broken the $1 billion mark for funds under management for the first time, after taking in more than $550 million in the 12 ...
A damning new report on the hedge fund industry in Australia has found that many products do not constitute hedge funds at all. Authors of the report, MARTIN GOLD and PAU...
Van Eyk Research has completed its first ever review of the burgeoning fund of hedge fund sector, awarding just one fund its top AA rating....
Macquarie Funds Management will move to list its wholesale Diversified Treasury Fund on master trust and wrap menus after the fund broke the $1 billion mark for funds und...
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...
Newly launched boutique funds management group Select Asset Management is looking to release two funds as part of its strategy to establish itself as an ‘absolute return’...
Australia’s hedge fund industry continues to grow at an astonishing pace, but how such investments fit into an overall investment portfolio, the latest report into the se...
The complex nature of hedge funds should not stop advisers from recommending them, says DOMINIC McCORMICK....
Macquarie Investment Management has launched a private equity fund-of-funds targeting the retail investor who wishes to invest in the wholesale private equity market....
MACQUARIE Financial Services is rolling out a fund of private equity funds for the retail market in what it says is a watershed for investors wanting to access alternativ...
NEXT Financial will become the first non-institutional group in Australia to roll out individually managed accounts (IMAs) and the second to offer them to financial plann...
Absolute Capital will list three retail hedge funds it launched in July on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), to be available to master trusts, wraps and retail investo...
THERE currently exists a level of euphoria surrounding individually managed accounts (IMAs) in the Australian investment marketplace that is highly questionable....
Significant ethical issues there. If a relationship is in the process of breaking down then both parties are likely to b...
It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...