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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...

Financial planning

US economic growth could be as low as 1 per cent in 2005, leading global markets to suffer as the world’s largest economy enters “the first phase of a painful decline”, a...

Financial planning

Russell Investment Group has halved the exposure to Australian listed property in its diversified funds, directing the money to offshore property securities because of wh...

Financial planning

Goldman Sachs JBWere has re-opened its popular emerging leaders fund to new investments after closing off the funds in late 2001 when assets under management reached some...

Financial planning

Former Advance Asset Management boss Stephen Lam has re-emerged more than a year after leaving the St George group, accepting a newly created chief investment officer rol...

Financial planning

The Chinese wall between Deutsche Asset Management’s Paladin and Sentinel Australian listed property teams will come down next month, when the two merge....

People & Products

Super fund Sunsuper has appointed Mercer Investment Consulting to advise on its range of investment products....

People & Products

Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management has remixed its staff composition in a bid to become more aware of developing market needs within the Australian asset management in...

Editorial

Retail investors are diving into option trading, writes Dominic McCormick. But will they be out of their depth when markets take a plunge?...

Editorial

While the short-term outlook for sharemarkets is looking rosy, investors shouldn’t be complacent about looking for alternatives, writes Dominic McCormick....

Financial planning

Less than half of active investment managers that outperform over a three year period will be able to match the result over a subsequent period, according to a new resear...

Editorial

Dominic McCormick expresses some serious concerns in his opinion piece on a new investment fund....

Financial planning

The financial planning job market has moved on from its compliance myopia. Ross Kelly has the low down on the skills that will get you that dream job....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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