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Financial planning

AMP shares rose more than 25 per cent today to highs of $6.52 after National Australia Bank’s purchase of 34.3 million shares hinted to the market that the National is po...

Financial planning

China’s fledgling asset management marketplace will eclipse the more established Hong Kong market in size by the end of the year when it will boast US$26.7 billion in ret...

Financial planning

Property group Becton has launched the first retail mezzanine fund for property investment aimed at the self-managed superannuation fund market but denies the move is des...

Editorial

Listed investments are readily accessible, well established and offer diversification, but they’re not yet in widespread use by planners....

Financial planning

Fund manager investment style was irrelevant as individual manager stock-picking strategies resulted in many benefiting from the continued resurgence of the domestic equi...

Financial planning

The managed funds industry has recorded positive inflows for the first time this year after total assets under management rose to $670 billion at the end of June, a $37 b...

Editorial

The Commonwealth Bank has posted a net profit after tax of $2.012 billion, a drop of 24 per cent from last year, with funds management doing little to boost the bank’s re...

Financial planning

25 per cent of Securities Institute members remain unconvinced the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) recently released guidelines on fee disclosur...

Financial planning

With the sun now peeking through on international stock markets, Ben Abbott reports on how fund managers have managed to weather the storm....

Editorial

With the Aussie dollar rising, does hedging add value? Margaret Callinan reports....

Funds management

Australian fund managers are confident this financial year will prove more fruitful than 2002/03 despite the failure of estimates made this time last year to materialise....

Financial planning

Count Financial Ltd posted a record 25 per cent increase in after tax net profits today and is set to launch a number of new products and service offerings in the coming ...

Financial planning

The funds management industry was given a respite from lacklustre markets in the second quarter of 2003, stimulating an improvement in the net inflow position compared to...

Funds management

Hedge fund managers Vertex Capital Management and K2 have recorded performance in excess of 20 per cent for the last financial year, in figures released yesterday by rese...

Financial planning

Growth funds are beginning to reward the faith some investors have placed in them after the median fund experienced five successive months of positive returns, following ...

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