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Financial planning

Standard and Poor’s has placed a number of Citigroup Asset Management’s funds and sectors on hold following the sale of the division to Legg Mason, which was announced on...

Financial planning

Absolute return fund manager HFA Asset Management has attracted over four times as much money into the second instalment of its capital protected ‘Octane’ fund of funds a...

Financial planning

A stellar performance in both Australian and international equities has resulted in Alliance Bernstein taking out the overall prize in the Money Management Fund Manager o...

Funds management

There may be fewer competitors in the multi-sector category of the Fund Manager of the Year Awards, but it doesn’t make it any less easy a category to judge. Assirt fund ...

Financial planning

Managed funds are finding increasing favour with Australian households as a diversification strategy, according to the latest ING Melbourne Institute Household Savings an...

Financial planning

Craig Phillips discovers that currency is a key consideration when it comes to investing in global equities....

Financial planning

Less than half of active investment managers that outperform over a three year period will be able to match the result over a subsequent period, according to a new resear...

Financial planning

Private equity managers are casting a wider net to attract advisers and retail investors. John Wilkinson looks at a new fund from ING....

Editorial

Does slow and steady win the race or is it all about a sprint to time the market? A new research report has the answer. Liam Egan reports....

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has dismissed suggestions the closure of its Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) division is a risk averse move brought about by its Westpac Bank parent se...

Editorial

A winter of discontent awaits if you get it wrong on indexing and property syndicates, writes Robert Kavney....

Financial planning

Australian and US investors are paying significantly higher investment management fees than their counterparts in the United Kingdom and Europe, according to a survey con...

Financial planning

The Australian fixed interest sector could deliver negative returns to investors next year as it faces a subdued short to medium-term outlook fuelled by anticipated inter...

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Boutique research house Zenith Investment Partners is ready to take its model to the advisory market. John Wilkinson reports....

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The planning industry is placing greater emphasis on in-house research, but this is no major threat to larger research houses like InvestorWeb, writes Kate Kachor....

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