The poor performance of some traditional asset classes is fuelling investor appetite for hedge funds. Craig Phillips asks whether this interest is part of a long-term phe...

Despite the flurry of interest they generated when introduced to the Australian market, the take up of hedge funds has been slow. Ben Abbott reports....

Former van Eyk Research associate director Rashmi Mehrotra has joined rival Mercer Investment Consulting to spearhead business development for the latter’s web site serv...

The technology produced by research houses for advisers to access and manipulate their research becomes more advanced and competitive every year. Lucie Beaman looks at wh...

Small cap managers are improving their investment processes and honing their stockpicking skills to produce consistently strong performance, van Eyk Research’s 2003 Small...

Van Eyk Research and the original creators of Visplan have joined forces to build a rival financial planning software tool and are set to roll it out for use in the next ...

Mercer Investment Consulting has launched a retail investment research platform targeted specifically at the financial planning market, in direct competition with other p...

Van Eyk Research has downgraded one AMP fund and placed another on hold, after negatively reassessing the group’s business management rating and given the uncertainty now...

Macquarie Wrap Solutions has struck a deal with van Eyk Research to utilise the latter’s Blueprint series of funds across its two platforms - the high net worth Macquarie...

Hedge fund managers employing a long bias in their equity strategies will benefit from stabilising investment markets over the next few years at the expense of managers a...

The hybrid securities sector remains a heavily concentrated and risky market despite its general growth and positive returns, and presents a range of complex issues for i...

Despite growing assets under management by some $1 billion over the past year, Citigroup Asset Management (CAM), the Australian asset management business of the US-based ...

Master trust provider Strategic Investments Australia has dropped Sagitta Rothschild from its listed property trust lineup following the recent departures of a number of ...

With over two decades in the game, dealer manager Michael Summers has always kept his practices ahead of their time. John Wilkinson reports....