I HAVE asked dozens of financial planners where they add value to their clients. Their usual response is through advice and strategy....
SPECIALIST fund-of-hedge-fund manager Investor Select Advisors is looking to team up with an Australian funds management group in an attempt to grab a foothold in Austral...
Tower Managed Funds Limited has launched a socially responsible product with Norwegian fund manager Storebrand as the underlying manager of the product....
Morningstar’s recent business and management strength rating assessment of Advance Asset Management has placed significant question marks over the business’ ability to ma...
Investor Security Group (ISG) owner and director Robert Keavney will team up with Malcolm Turnbull to launch a new planning group aimed at the high net worth end of the m...
Research house Morningstar has released a qualitative report on Deutsche Asset Management which rates the fund manager with an overall score of four, which means it is in...
Sealcorp chief executive Ian Knox has called for a comprehensive review of “soft dollar revenues” across the financial services industry....
Barclays Global Investors Australia is the first cab off the rank for Morningstar’s new qualitative rating process, and was graded with an overall score of four, meaning ...
The Assirt research house has issues a “strong” rating to the international equity management capabilities of Platinum Asset Management in its latest half yearly review o...
Lonsec has downgraded two of Rothschild Australia Asset Management’s funds from recommended to approved status, sighting the Westpac’s purchase of the fund manager introd...
Master trust fee levels will ultimately be determined by investors, through innovations such as Colonial’s FirstChoice master trust. KATE KACHOR reports....
Good performance can mean a lot of things, but not necessarily support from financial advisers....
While master trusts and wraps make administration easier, they have also added another level of fees. JASON SPITS examines who gets what in the platform fee carve up....
There used to be one name for fund managers who pooled money to invest with a range of fund managers. So what happened? FIONA MOORE reports on the rise of the multi-manag...
The announcement by Fiducian at the end of last month that it had acquired Bodinnars Personal Financial Planners marks a new era for a small private company which over th...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....