AVANTEOS appears to have nosed in front of its competitors on its wrap platform development....

In Assirt’s rating of fund manager Zurich, the research house believed the integration process of the Zurich Scudder and Deutsche Asset Management businesses will bode we...

In the last article I discussed what I believe are the limitations to the current approach to asset allocation of much of the financial planning (and funds management) in...

Perennial Investment Partners has been applauded for making a number of good strategic choices in its funds management process, with the Assirt research house saying the ...

Despite the emphasis placed on the importance of asset allocation, DOMINIC McCORMICK thinks traditional wisdom on what constitutes strategic asset allocation leaves a lot...

SOME of Australia’s leading investment specialists have come together to call on financial planners to hold their nerve and convince their clients to stay in Australian a...

Hedge funds have done well in terms of both performance and distribution, but they are yet to be universally accepted on master trust menus. FIONA MOORE reports....

Advisers are more optimistic than investors that the share market will improve in the next six months and are also likely to allocate twice as much to international equit...

Australian Skandia has taken two new fund-of-funds to the retail market, with plans to make them available to the wholesale market at the end of the year....

An understanding of market movements is essential for financial planners and as ROBERT KEAVNEY writes, taking a longer term view will always reveal the underlying fundame...

Assirt rates Tower’s business management as competent while rating its operating capability as strong in its review of the funds manager....

In a bid to assist planners to come to terms with the ‘Know Your Client’ provision of the new Financial Services Reform Act licensing regime, Coddington Finance Corporati...

Specialist investment research group 5Di will expand its operations and move into supplying its own manage the manager (MTM) style investment funds....

Consistent outperformance across a range of asset classes was the key to accolades in the multi-sector category of the 2002 Fund Manager of the Year awards....