Fund managers have again been given the opportunity to give their frank but anonymous assessment on the research houses which so frequently determine how the financial se...

Much of the value of having a research house rate a financial product comes in the way of their perceived independence and their ability to offer a completely objective v...

Standard & Poor’s has placed four Challenger small and micro cap funds ‘on hold’ following the resignation of senior portfolio manager James Ring....

Fund managers have confirmed that the major research houses are still capable of significantly influencing their businesses, with 50 per cent expressing the view that res...

Macquarie has launched a new property fund that will invest in the agricultural sector. However, the fund manager will be buying farms, land and related agricultural buil...

Research house Morningstar has not lifted its ‘avoid’ rating on Colonial First States’ global property securities fund, despite the Commonwealth Bank-owned fund manager a...

The wealth management industry is ripe for consolidation according to fund manager Ausbil Dexia, who also predicted that the strong returns on the Australian market would...

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) is cracking down on conflicts of interest and the use of commissions to improve the profile of the industry, and increasingly con...

Former HSBC Asset Management head Barry Sheehan has been appointed chief executive officer of Tyndall Asset Management, ending months of speculation on a replacement for ...

Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has delivered an upbeat assessment of hybrid property products....

Credit Suisse Asset Management chief executive Andrew McKinnon has ended an 11-year stint at the Switzerland-based fund manager’s Australian operation....

Boutique planning firm Capstone Financial Planning has cracked the Sydney market, recruiting a practice established by former RetireInvest assistant general manager David...

Retail investors can now put their nest eggs into fish tanks with listed property fund manager and subsidiary of the MFS group, MFS Living and Leisure, entering into a $1...

Financial advisers have embraced the growth in self-managed superannuation funds with recent research showing just under half of them, 46 per cent, see it as a significan...