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Financial planning

IOOF has been upgraded while Colonial First State and ING have both been downgraded as part of research house Lonsec’s Diversified Sector Review released today....

Editorial

LUCIE BEAMAN spoke to Richard Gilbert and Brian Thomas about what will be the major influences on the funds management world this year....

Funds management

Managed funds research house Morningstar is claiming managed funds are able to beat any given benchmark but few do so, due to a lack of manager skill....

Financial planning

Advance Funds Management has signed an exclusive deal with the US based Mellon Global Investments to provide its products to the market in a sizeable retail expansion for...

Editorial

While speaking at the FPA’s annual convention, Roger Gibson made a convincing case for asset allocation diversification – but left Dominic McCormick uncomfortable with so...

Funds management

Australian equities were the stand-out performer when compared to other asset classes in the month of October, after the S&P 200/ASX finished up 3.2 per cent....

Financial planning

MLC is not a fund manager, but a manager of managers, combining the expertise of 22 managers from around the world. Simon Segal reports....

Financial planning

UBS has been rated the top six star manager in diversified funds by InvestorWeb Research for its Global Fund - a multi-sector product with active sector management....

Financial planning

InvestorWeb Research has named the managers it considers worthy of receiving its six star ratings and at the head of the pack is UBS Global Asset management (GAM) which h...

Funds management

UBS Global Asset Management has been named the InvestorWeb Research Six Star Fund Manager, 2003. InvestorWeb gave the group line honours for demonstrating broad strengths...

Rate the raters

This year marks the second year that Money Management has undertaken the Rating the Raters Survey which was carried out in conjunction with the Tom Collins Consultancy. T...

Financial planning

Not many fund managers can claim to have escaped the industry shake-out over the past two years. But Macquarie Funds Management is one of them. Simon Segal reports....

Financial planning

Van Eyk Capital will roll out its annual agribusiness survey this month with the research group encouraging advisers and clients to consider the benefit of the investment...

Financial planning

Sealcorp and 5Di have signed up the Australian Agribusiness Group (AAG) to provide them with research on agribusiness managed investment schemes....

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research has completed its first ever review of the burgeoning fund of hedge fund sector, awarding just one fund its top AA rating....

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