New Zealand fund managers can stop holding their breath waiting for the Securities Commission’s report on practices within their industry - it’s officially been canned....

Following a poor rating, fund managers are the first to criticise a research house’s approach as either too qualitative or quantitative in its focus. However, as FIONA MO...

Despite rating the value that research houses provide as high, funds managers are not clear on how the research market differentiates itself, and as a result, who is best...

Research house Morningstar has given the thumbs up to IOOF after the fund manager appointed two international specialist fixed interest managers for its suite of multi-se...

Challenger has had a strong six months to December 31, 2001 which puts the group on track to make its targeted three yearly after tax profit of $200 million by the end of...

The financial services industry remains inefficient because its success means it does not have to improve. However Tom Collins argues this will spur on the next wave of c...

The announcement that Colonial First State Investments’ long time head of Australian equities Greg Perry will resign from his post in June this year has led to Morningsta...

Invesco Australia appears to have been given much needed breathing room by research group Morningstar despite recording only a two star ranking and weathering a tumultuou...

Colonial First State Investments is set to lose one of the founders of its highly regarded funds management team after the group’s long time head of Australian equities, ...

AMP chief executive Paul Batchelor has remained optimistic about AMP’s profitability despite today announcing a decline in profits for 2001 and forecasting another tough ...

Following a downward trend in the performance of its funds, Morningstar has downgraded Credit Suisse Asset Management from a five to a four star fund manager....

National Australia Financial Management (NAFM) has failed to pull itself out of a two star Morningstar rating, reflecting a relatively ‘poor quality’ fund manager, despit...

Colonial First State Property has reinforced its New Zealand commitment with the purchase of a New Zealand property funds management company, Kiwi Income Properties Limit...

Citigroup Asset Management has been awarded a $13 million listed properties mandate by Fiducian Portfolio Services via its fund-of-fund offering Fiducian Property Securit...