FUND MANAGER

Financial planning

Fortitude Capital and Aurora Funds have reached an agreement to merge subject to a successful Aurora Funds initial public offering....

Funds management

David Bryant sold his agricultural funds management company to Great Southern in 2007, but has wrangled back control one year after the parent company's collapse....

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Funds management

AXA Real Estate Investment Managers has signed an agreement with The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co formalising plans to jointly set up a new investment fund for Japanese ...

Editorial

Hedge funds have been slammed in recent years as poor performance deemed them a disaster for investors. Despite this, Janine Mace finds the industry remains positive, wit...

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Financial planning

Boutique fund manager Instreet is expanding its Link series with the introduction of the Link DS hedging product, which has received a 'recommended' rating from Lonsec....

Financial planning

Standard & Poor's has placed the AXA Wholesale Global Equity Core Fund 'on hold' over policy breach....

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Financial planning

BT Financial Group has completed its post-merger fund manager reshuffle, announcing changes to its manager line-up for the Australian equities, property and fixed interes...

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People & Products

Boutique fund manager Lodestar Capital Partners has appointed two new senior staff to its expanding equities research team....

Funds management

Perpetual Investment Management has formed a partnership with US hedge fund manager Ramius Alternative Solutions LLC under which Ramius will advise Perpetual on its hedge...

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Financial planning

Morningstar has completed research on the fixed interest sector and new ratings, which include five ratings upgrades as well as two downgrades....

Life/Risk

High upfront insurance commissions result in a dramatic overselling of products to people who cannot afford it, according to former Money Management Financial Planner of ...

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Rate the raters

After a disastrous 2008, fund managers staged a dramatic recovery last year. Chris Kennedy takes a look at fund manager performance in 2009 and the factors that prompted ...

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Editorial

Dominic McCormick explains why it is time to increase the heat on the frozen funds littering the mortgage, high yield, property and hedge fund sectors....

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Funds management

Former Macquarie bank fund manager, Oswyn de Silva, has been restrained after trying to leave Australia in breach of court orders....

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People & Products

Boutique fund manager Instreet has appointed Sam Harris as a relationship manager for New South Wales, strengthening its distribution team....

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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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