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Funds management

19 Aug

Private equity fund open to retail trade

Macquarie Investment Management is to open up its private equity fund of funds MAIT (Macquarie Alternative Investment Trust) to retail in-vestors for the first time in ea...

Financial planning

22 Jul

Industry still in the dark on disclosure

Commission disclosure for life insurance products is no stranger to controversy. Gareth Cosslett asks if the latest battle, concerning two pieces of key financial service...

Financial planning

29 Apr

Equities – Let the big adventure begin...

Venture capital has long been a staple of super funds in Australia and a standard investment sector for sophisticated US investors. Gareth Cosslett explores the possibili...

Financial planning

10 Apr

Industry still in the dark on disclosure

Commission disclosure for life insurance products is no stranger to controversy. Gareth Cosslett asks if the latest battle, concerning two pieces of key financial service...

Financial planning

18 Mar

How planners are beating the banks at their own game...

The term "Jack of all trades and master of none" has, depending on your standpoint, two meanings. Traditionally, it is a sapient caution against the downside of spreading...

Financial planning

18 Mar

There’s paraplanning gold in them there hills

If the burgeoning sector evolving around employing and outsourcing paraplanners is to be believed, there’s a gold rush going on. “Good people” are talked of in hushed ton...

Financial planning

18 Mar

Advisers enter the ring with the banks

A new “reverse” mortgage has been launched where financial planners and accountants build their own home loan packages instead of picking from a range of pre-prepared pro...

Financial planning

18 Mar

Tower jettisons brands to boost local profile

Tower Financial Services Group will kill off brands including Austrust, National Insurance and South Pacific Insurance and rebadge them under the Tower name in its ongoin...

Financial planning

18 Mar

Drabble crosses Tasman to lead AMP NZ branch

AMP has chosen a new boss for its New Zealand financial services business following general manager Rodney Cooke’s promotion to director of group finance at the group’s U...

Financial planning

18 Mar

BT turns on the charm to sway dealers

BT Funds Management has won over all but one of the dealer groups and research houses expressing doubts over BT’s management following its planned merger with Deutsche Ba...