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It is a cruel irony that last year’s outperformance of the Australian equities sector should give few clues to fund manager performance during 2004 and the 12 months ahea...

Editorial

In late 2003, I wrote an article which pointed out some of the flaws in the new listed investment companies (LICs) floating at the time, and predicted that investors’ hig...

Financial planning

A reshuffle of Promina Group’s executive management team will see Tyndall Investment Management’s chief executive and chief investment officer Michael Goode reporting to ...

Financial planning

Mercer Global Investments added three diversified and four sector funds to its investment products range, taking a more aggressive approach to achieving returns whilst re...

Financial planning

It’s time again to return to the topic of gold. It comes at an interesting time when (at least at the time of writing) gold was confounding many critics by rising in pric...

Editorial

Picking a fund manager that will consistently outperform over the long-term is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And while advisers have greater acc...

Financial planning

A majority of Australian-based investment managers believe international equities will be the strongest performing asset class over the next 12 months....

Financial planning

A stellar performance in both Australian and international equities has resulted in Alliance Bernstein taking out the overall prize in the Money Management Fund Manager o...

Financial planning

The Australian-based Infrastructure Investments business unit within Deutsche Asset Management has been upgraded and expanded into a global operation....

Financial planning

The apparent bargain price paid for HSBC Asset Management Australia by Challenger Financial Services could reflect capacity constraints in its listed property business an...

Financial planning

AMP Capital Investors has signalled a greater emphasis on hedge fund product development, in the wake of chief investment officer Merv Peacock announcing his retirement....

Financial planning

Perpetual has managed to retain the lions’ share of $2 billion in international funds previously invested by Fidelity Investments, after it was given the go-ahead last we...

Financial planning

The $6.9 billion Telstra Superannuation Scheme, the largest corporate fund in Australia, has appointed and terminated a number of its investment managers following an ext...

Financial planning

Australian Unity has linked with a number of prominent portfolio managers to set up a boutique funds management group that will specialise in absolute return fixed intere...

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