Well-known former ANZ Bank chief economist Saul Eslake has taken up a role on the investment advisory committee of Wingate Asset Management....

Peer pressure and the fear of risking their careers is pushing many fund managers to maintain low tracking error against the index, leading to little difference between t...

Listed financial services company Snowball will acquire Officium Capital - a responsible entity of 14 funds - in a bid to take more control of the price charged by underl...

A weaker global banking system is forcing businesses to seek credit elsewhere, which is creating opportunities for private credit internationally and in Australia, accord...

Investors with ethical sensitivities may prefer certified responsible investment funds, but do they really understand where their money is going and to what extent do the...

Research has found advisers don't fully trust ratings houses that rely on fund manager payments as their main source of revenue....

A HSBC quarterly fund manager survey has stated that over half of fund managers hold a positive outlook about bonds, although investors may look towards reducing interest...

Edwina Best and Amanda Rethus discuss the importance of researchers to the financial services industry and your business....

Robert Keavney considers the active versus passive funds management debate and concludes that both sides’ arguments are too simplistic....

Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) chief Pauline Vamos is concerned that financial planners aren't responding to different retirement phases with dif...

Alena Miles considers what lies ahead in super and retirement income streams, particularly in light of three major Government policy reviews....

Pengana Capital’s Asian Equities Long Short Fund is now accessible as a retail fund, having previously only been open to wholesale investors....

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched civil action against the directors and companies involved in the collapse of the MFS group of companies....

Performance graphs can be misleading, warns Rob Keavney, who explains how fund managers and others can create false impressions of investment performance....