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Funds management

Global equities now appear to be better relative value than Australian equities, and provide diversification against significant security and sector-specific risks in the...

Financial planning

The Macquarie Group has launched two funds giving investors the opportunity to invest in emerging markets, with a particular emphasis on Brazilian, Russian, Indian and Ch...

Financial planning

Moving IOOF’s retail distribution operation to Perennial has claimed its first causality in head of distribution Andrew Stewart....

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Funds management

Australia’s hedge fund industry may need to step us as a new export vehicle for the country, given the nation’s current account deficits and the fact it cannot rely on th...

Financial planning

Portfolio Partners has won all three of the categories it entered into in the 2006 Australian Business Awards....

Financial planning

Skandia intends to use its acquisition of Intech as a way of driving down fund manager costs on its platform by utilising the mandated structure of the Intech Investment ...

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Financial planning

The head of a specialist small cap hedge fund manager believes the small cap market in the short-term will continue to deliver solid returns, but not to the extent witnes...

Financial planning

Allco Finance Group’s funds management division is targeting more than $2 billion in new funds under management by the end of the 2006-07, following its merger with Recor...

Funds management

Australia’s ageing population is fuelling an upswing in the popularity of listed property funds, with 81 per cent of advisers having placed investments in the asset class...

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Financial planning

The head of a fund manager dealing in commodities believes investors can maximise the returns on investments from the commodities boom if they examine small cap companies...

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Financial planning

Additional performance fees on top of already high fees are unjustified at a time when fund manager performance could be classified as average, according to Standard & Po...

Financial planning

A Melbourne-based boutique fund manager is launching the first retail investment product in Australia that fully meets Islamic Shari’ah law....

Financial planning

Listening to the “white noise” of volatility and switching in and out of different stocks in an attempt to maximise returns will most probably result in wealth being chip...

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