AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES

Financial planning

BNP Paribas Asset Management has confirmed that it has already shed some staff and will possibly lose more in the wake of its decision today to sell off its Australian eq...

Financial planning

The United Funds Management group has dropped growth oriented Credit Suisse First Boston from its pool of active Australian equities managers in favour of the style neutr...

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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 ...

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The Westpac Bank’s acquisition of the BT Financial Group has continued to wreak havoc on the beleaguered fund manager’s Australian equities capabilities, with two investm...

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IOOF Investment Manager and its subsidiary Perennial will need to make significant investments in growing staff numbers and infrastructure if they want to establish thems...

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Morningstar has released its business and management strength rating for IOOF and its funds management arm Perennial Partners giving the group a three out of five rating,...

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Perpetual Trustees Australia today reported a full year net profit of $75.6 million, up 38 per cent from the prior year....

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THE MELBOURNE-based Treasury Group has announced its intention to acquire a stake in a series of small fund managers as part of an ambitious bid to become an umbrella gro...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

Perpetual Investments has taken a step away from its key man approach to the management of its flagship Australian equities fund, the Perpetual Industrial Share Fund, in ...

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Assirt has given Deutsche Asset Management a tick for its Global Equities Opportunities Fund, but a cross for the fund manager’s international fixed interest capabilities...

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HSBC Asset Management (Australia) has been given an average rating by two major research houses this week, scoring a three in Morningstar’s Business and Management Streng...

Financial planning

The Assirt research house has downgraded Colonial First State Investment’s Australian equities capabilities and demoted the majority of its Australian equity products ahe...

Financial planning

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

Financial planning

There used to be one name for fund managers who pooled money to invest with a range of fund managers. So what happened? FIONA MOORE reports on the rise of the multi-manag...

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