Independent master trust provider Strategic Investments Australia has appointed two boutique Australian equity managers to its Strategic Super Master Plan, and restructur...
A decline in total assets under management in Australia as well as continuing weak fund inflows is creating a situation Assirt believes could have “severe consequences” f...
Barclays Global Investors (BGI) and Perpetual Investments have both been issued with glowing report cards by two separate research houses today....
When Perennial Investment Partners was launched by IOOF as a new boutique funds management arm in 1999, IOOF’s plan was to become a significant player in both retail and ...
InvestorWeb Research has added Invesco to its recommended list of managers after completing its latest report into the fixed interest sector....
The influential van Eyk research group has reinforced its recommendation that advisers consider pulling clients with medium-term outlooks out of BT funds, in the wake of ...
SEPARATELY managed account (SMA) provider Direct Portfolio will move beyond its direct investor approach and seek financial planners who are willing to use the product wi...
Investors and their advisers should not be lured into capital guaranteed investment options by the continuing uncertainty pervading economies around the world....
Assirt associate director Anthony Serhan has left the research house on Friday of last week bringing the total number of departures from the group in recent months to fou...
Macquarie Equity Markets has released two new capital protected investment products to cater to Australia’s increasingly nervy share market investors....
The Westpac Bank’s acquisition of the BT Financial Group has continued to wreak havoc on the beleaguered fund manager’s Australian equities capabilities, with two investm...
Despite the emphasis placed on the importance of asset allocation, DOMINIC McCORMICK thinks traditional wisdom on what constitutes strategic asset allocation leaves a lot...
Morningstar has released its business and management strength rating for IOOF and its funds management arm Perennial Partners giving the group a three out of five rating,...
SOME of Australia’s leading investment specialists have come together to call on financial planners to hold their nerve and convince their clients to stay in Australian a...
Challenger International has turned the financial services sector’s push to have its proposed ‘growth pensions’ granted complying income stream status on its head, with t...
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,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...