AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES

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 ...

Funds management

Boutique fund managers have completely outrated their larger rivals to dominate the Australian equities category in the 2005 Money Management Fund Manager of the Year awa...

Financial planning

Van Eyk Three Pillars, the listed quantitative investor in Australian equities, has shared its high returns with investors by paying a special dividend....

Financial planning

Colonial First State will not be renegotiating its exclusive distribution deal with 452 Capital from the position of strength it may have hoped for, following yesterday’s...

Financial planning

AMP Capital Investors has signalled a greater emphasis on hedge fund product development, in the wake of chief investment officer Merv Peacock announcing his retirement....

Financial planning

Far fewer Australians are seeking financial advice, yet paradoxically they think the standard of that advice has dramatically improved, according to a survey of 25,000 co...

Financial planning

Balanced funds with an overweight position on large cap Australian equities continue to be rewarded, with the ASX 300 again proving the best mainstream home for investors...

Financial planning

The margin lending market has grown to record highs on the back of buoyant equity market returns, new figures show....

Funds management

The US$4 trillion Mellon Financial Corporation is sizing up a plan to set up an Australian equities funds management arm....

Financial planning

MLC is claiming to have achieved better after-tax returns and lower transaction costs just months after introducing it unique ‘emulation’ method for running a multi-manag...

Financial planning

The margin lending market has grown to record highs on the back of buoyant equity market returns, new figures show....

Financial planning

The Australian equities market continues to defy expectations of a slowdown from last year’s growth highs, rising 2.2 per cent in February....

Financial planning

Australians own more shares directly than anyone else in the world but are as likely to get stock tips from a newspaper as from a financial planner, according to a study ...

Editorial

Promina’s financial services division has contributed $132 million of the group’s $458 million profit for 2004, although the wealth management businesses chipped in just ...

Financial planning

Balanced funds that were overweight in Australian shares performed best last month, as the ‘January effect’ lifted the local bourse but passed over the US and Japanese ex...

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