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It’s currently fashionable to call financial planning ‘life planning’, but Tom Collins argues that is exactly what financial planning has always been....
Editorial
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....
Financial planning
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 ...
Editorial
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...
Financial planning
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....
Financial planning
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...
Financial planning
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...
Financial planning
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’...
Funds management
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...
Editorial
The complex nature of hedge funds should not stop advisers from recommending them, says DOMINIC McCORMICK....
Funds management
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....
Funds management
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...
Financial planning
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...
Funds management
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...
Financial planning
THERE currently exists a level of euphoria surrounding individually managed accounts (IMAs) in the Australian investment marketplace that is highly questionable....
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The succession dilemma is more than just a matter of commitments.This isn’t simply about younger vs. older advisers. It’...
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...