Challenger Financial Services Group (CFSG) has appointed Europe-based technology group SimCorp Dimension to service its portfolio and investment management back-office op...

Capital Alliance Holdings Australia (CAHA) confirmed its $83.75 million acquisition of Lumley Life yesterday after having signalled its intent to purchase the group in la...

Acadian Asset Management senior vice-president Rick Barry says the market focus for the second half of 2003 will be on value stories that have potential to outperform in ...

Morningstar will offer its proprietary Select Equity research on US stocks in the Australian market, allowing funds managers to test their in-house stock rankings and adv...

Principal Global Investors has announced the appointment of former Schroder Investment Management head of sales and marketing, Alex Francois, as director of institutional...

Invesco has reiterated its commitment to its Australian operations despite a global downturn in financial services and will seek to grow the business rather than seek fur...

Back-office software provider Advent has pulled out of the Australian market and closed its Melbourne office....

Australian boutique fund manager Select Asset Management has announced a joint venture with European hedge fund manager Aspect Capital to increase its absolute return foc...

Australian boutique fund manager Select Asset Management has announced a joint venture with European hedge fund manager Aspect Capital to increase its absolute return foc...

The only part of the BT Funds Management (BTFM) group not to merge with Westpac, the direct and listed property groups, are set to re-establish themselves in the retail m...

Recently merged financial services groups Trust Company and Permanent have teamed up with technology provider Syscorp to launch an Individually Managed Account (IMA) serv...

Banks, platform providers and technology providers are likely to be the groups to benefit from the roll-out of separately managed accounts (SMA) into the Australian marke...

There is a lot of interest at the moment in Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) - also known as Individually Managed Accounts - and their imminent coming of age....

ACTIVE managers use different investment styles with the aim of outperforming the market. In the US, ‘value’ and ‘growth’ are two of the key styles used by fund managers ...