A majority of Australian-based investment managers believe international equities will be the strongest performing asset class over the next 12 months....
Lazard Asset Management dominated Mercer Investment Consulting’s specialist Australian share manager tables for May....
Absolute return fund manager HFA Asset Management has attracted over four times as much money into the second instalment of its capital protected ‘Octane’ fund of funds a...
Employees who leave wholesale corporate superannuation funds in favour of retail funds could be financially harmed and may end up paying fees double or triple those of th...
Australian equities bounced back in May, regaining most of what they lost in April and keeping the S&P/ASX 300 above 20 per cent for the financial year to date....
The world’s five largest manage-the-manager investment houses, including National Australia Bank’s MLC, have seen their market share shrink rapidly in the past four years...
Financial advisers are being encouraged to reassess their typically low allocations to direct property following the release of research which highlights the importance o...
BT Financial Group has reduced the US exposure in its retail global property fund from 100 per cent to 69 per cent, opening up to European and Asian markets as they in tu...
Colonial First State has outsourced half of the listed property trust portfolio in its balanced fund to Pengana Capital....
The superannuation industry has welcomed changes to superannuation included in the Federal Budget but doesn’t believe the Government has gone far enough....
Older Australians and those more educated about super choice are more likely to stay in their existing fund when the new regime is introduced, while the less informed are...
Australia’s march toward having $1 trillion in managed funds continues, with $838.7 billion being amassed as at March 31....
Proceeds from the sale of the Australian arm of its wealth management business, a benevolent market climate and the completion of a successful two year recovery strategy ...
Macquarie Bank’s Financial Services and Funds Management groups have contributed 4 per cent and 1 per cent respectively to the bank’s record-breaking profit of $823 milli...
The Australian and overseas sharemarkets continued to decline in April, with domestic equities producing their worst monthly return for over two years....
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...