FUND MANAGER

Superannuation

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...

Funds management

Research house Lonsec has taken the UBS Property Securities Fund off ‘fund watch’ and reinstated its previous rating of ‘highly recommended’ following the appointment of ...

Financial planning

The longstanding legal dispute between Equity Trustees Limited and the vendors of the Wealthpac Master Fund has been resolved....

Financial planning

The glory days of the boutique fund manager are over. Investment managers from the big end of town, particularly BT, were the best performing managers of Australian equit...

Funds management

Macquarie Bank has signed an American fund manager that invests in global property securities to the fifth instalment of its Professional Series....

Financial planning

Australian Unity Investments has formed a joint venture with boutique manager Platypus Asset Management to offer Australian retail equity products....

Funds management

While 2004 was the year of the boutique, 2005 was, well, the year of the boutique....

People & Products

Boutique property fund manager and developer Sovereign MF has appointed industry stalwart Colin Owens to build its distribution strategy....

Funds management

The relatively weak performance of large cap stocks and some poor decisions on individual stock selection have led researcher Morningstar to rate Macquarie’s internationa...

People & Products

Melbourne-based research house Lonsec has placed the UBS Property Securities Fund on hold, following the exit of UBS property head John Snowden to Colonial First State....

Financial planning

Industry superannuation funds have emerged as the initial winners in the early stages of Australia’s new choice of super fund environment, according to a survey conducted...

People & Products

Credit Suisse Asset Management’s head of retail distribution Chris Larsen has left his role to take up the same position at Deutsche Asset Management....

People & Products

Former senior research analyst at InvestorWeb Rodney Sebire has ended a short stint at Skandia to go to hedge fund manager Mann Investments....

Financial planning

National Australian Bank has sold a large part of its funds management operations in the United Kingdom to London-based fund manager Tilney Investment Management....

Financial planning

Specialist trading firm Tricom Equities had struck a deal with Australia’s most talked about fund manager, MIR Investment Management, to provide it with model portfolios ...

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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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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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