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Financial planning

Van Eyk Research says BT Funds Management has been slow to utilise its connections with US parent, Principal, but that the fund manager is at last making steps in the rig...

Financial planning

HSBC’s overall three star rating from Morningstar has survived a review by the research house which had scaled down the majority of the fund manager’s qualitive ratings....

Financial planning

Merill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) has created an internal research division focusing on the delivery and service of research to investment consultants and research ...

Financial planning

Looking back, Grant Abbott, the chief executive of The Strategist Group (TSG), is not sure exactly when things started to go so wrong with his business, all he knows is t...

Financial planning

BT Funds Management (BTFM) will expand its international capabilities with the addition of small number of Australian analysts in the group’s investment offices in Singap...

Financial planning

Research house Morningstar has maintained a downgrade on Colonial First State’s flagship Australian equities fund, the Imputation Fund, following the announcement last we...

Superannuation

Macquarie has become the second Australian fund manager to include a geared option in an investment vehicle, following the roll out yesterday of its new superannuation in...

Financial planning

The link between advice and implementation should be broken, according to TOM COLLINS, and this means a re-examination of the thorny issues of commissions and disclosure....

Financial planning

The recent Money Management Rating the Raters Survey, which gauged fund managers’ attitudes to research houses, has drawn responses from the research groups featured in t...

Financial planning

For some time I have been confused by industry experts arguing that there will be an increase in the number of DIY and small dealer groups, when most other financial part...

Financial planning

NICOLE SZOLLOS explores the correlation between the number of planners employed by a distributor and funds under advice. ...

Financial planning

Ventura Investment Management, the new funds management arm of dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS), has been given its first taste of credibility with new...

Funds management

Colonial First State has announced senior portfolio manager Simon Shields the successor to Greg Perry as the portfolio manager for the group’s flagship Australian equitie...

Financial planning

Tyndall Investment management has been rewarded for adhering to its deep value style, with research house Assirt today upgrading the manager’s Australian share products f...

Financial planning

Morningstar has reconfirmed the Tower group’s one star rating indicating a relatively ‘very poor quality’ fund manager....

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Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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