The unique process of equally combining quantitative and qualitative measures to construct portfolios has seen MIR finish first in the Australian equities - mid and large...
MIR Investment Management has taken out the top prize in this year’s Money Management/IMCA Fund Manager of the Year Awards, fulfilling the promise it showed at last year’...
Merrill Lynch Investment Management has recruited two senior analysts from Goldman Sachs JB Were, weeks after losing three of its Australian equities portfolio managers t...
The appointment by Challenger of a single individual to manage both its small-caps and micro-caps funds, following the recent resignation of lead small-caps portfolio man...
Analysts are predicting that losses are imminent for fixed interest markets, while bull markets in Australian equities will continue unabated for years to come....
The two-year-old strategic alliance between Advance Asset Management and Mellon Global Investments has now passed the $1 billion mark in funds under management....
It’s the Chinese year of the dog, and participants in the Australian share market are wondering where the canines lurk as talk of a correction ramps up. But thanks to the...
In the past five years, funds under management in the agribusiness sector have grown by as much as 80 per cent. Last year, inflows into the sector topped $1 billion and s...
The glory days of the boutique fund manager are over. Investment managers from the big end of town, particularly BT, were the best performing managers of Australian equit...
Small cap initial public offers generated outstanding returns for investors in 2005, eclipsing the performance of their larger company counterparts on average by 15 per c...
While 2004 was the year of the boutique, 2005 was, well, the year of the boutique....
Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has placed the UBS Property Securities Fund on hold, following the exit of UBS property head John Snowden to Colonial First State....
Asset allocation strategies in 2006 will be very similar to what strategists were doing last year, says AMP Capital Investors head of investment strategy Shane Oliver....
So you have a million dollars to invest. Let’s start by making some general assumptions; you own the property you live in, have no outstanding debts, you’re under 50-year...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....