AUSTRALIAN EQUITIES

Financial planning

AM Corporation has formally launched a multi-manager ethical and socially responsible investment vehicle giving investors access to four of the industry’s top ethical man...

Financial planning

Shrugging off recent ructions surrounding its management, Morningstar has downgraded BNP Paribas and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM), dropping the first to one s...

Editorial

When presented with graphs and tables it is worth considering how that data was chosen and for what reasons. Rob Keavney examines the techniques used by managers to sell ...

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Financial planning

JBWere Investment Management has rolled out an Australian Equities Fund targeting retail investors with as little as $5000 to invest....

Financial planning

Macquarie Investment Management has given its diversified balanced funds a more conservative tilt after conducting a wide-ranging review into the structure of the funds....

Financial planning

BT Funds Management (BTFM) chief investment officer Gary Symons has hit out angrily at ratings house InvestorWeb after the group downgraded all of BTFM’s international fu...

Financial planning

Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has received the thumbs up from Assirt with its overall rating moving up from competent to strong with Assirt paying particular focus to t...

Financial planning

Challenger has launched a master trust featuring a range of boutique managers specialising in Australian equities....

Funds management

National Asset Management (NAM) has made a further step towards the restructuring of its investment process taking on six external managers for the Australian equities s...

Financial planning

InvestorWeb has delivered a scathing assessment of BT Funds Management’s international equities capabilities, downgrading the rating of all BT international funds in its ...

Financial planning

ING has made moves into the socially responsible investing (SRI) market with the launch of two wholesale funds which are being made available to the retail market through...

Financial planning

Ratings house Assirt has upgraded BT Funds Management (BTFM) diversified product rating from hold to investment grade, or a three star rating, announcing the upgrade aft...

Funds management

The international and domestic sharemarkets were already suffering significant losses prior to the negative impact of the terrorist attacks in the US, according to result...

Financial planning

Tower Managed Funds now shares the same status as Tyndall as a one star fund manager, after Morningstar announced a downgrade yesterday....

Financial planning

Challenger has signed off the year to June 30 on a positive note with an after tax profit increase of 91 per cent....

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