With Parliament having risen for the final time before the Federal election and the new legislative settings now largely in place, Lisa Claes says that when the regulator...
Money Management asked fund managers once again what they thought about the research houses which rate their products....
Last year saw one of the major investment research houses, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), exit the Australian market. ...
They may have expanded their services, but research houses are not about to give fund managers a free pass to market. Jason Spits reports....
Between financial planners and fund managers stand research houses vetting products as they come to market, often to the chagrin of fund managers who have come to rely on...
Asset allocation is typically sold as a simple stocks-versus-bonds split, but there is much more to it than that if you want an effective result. Bhanu Singh points to a ...
The Trust Company will hold onto its board chair, Bruce Corlett, for one more year as it seeks to conclude the takeover offer presented by Perpetual, while also suspendin...
If one issue has clearly defined the divide which continues to exist between financial planners and accountants, it has been the chequered passage of the Government’s Tax...
A boutique fund manager won this year’s Money Management/Lonsec Fund Manager of the Year award. Is this a reflection of the way the market is behaving and the nature of t...
Fear is a potent force driving investor behaviour but its effects can be successfully navigated, writes Matt Sherwood....
Do Australians take too short-term a view of investments? Is there a tendency for knee-jerk reactions and little consideration for the long-term? A Money Management round...
Are we seeing a genuine move back into Australian equities driven by an exit from cash and cash-like investments, or are there other forces at play? A Money Management ro...
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...