Research methodologies and processes are the ultimate means by which one research house can differentiate itself from its competitors....

Ignoring their own rhetoric, balanced fund managers appear to relying on short-term results, writes LEEANNE BLAND....

Van Eyk has entered a strategic research alliance with property research group Managed Investment Assessments (MIA), the last in a series of research group alliances inte...

Listed fund manager Australian Value Funds Management has taken a 40 per cent stake in planning firm Garnaut Private Client Advisers....

Research groups generate an income from the fees charged to clients – either fund managers opting for a review, or subscription payments from advisers wishing to get regu...

In late 2003, I wrote an article which pointed out some of the flaws in the new listed investment companies (LICs) floating at the time, and predicted that investors’ hig...

One of the world’s largest fund managers has cut-off access to van Eyk Research, accusing the ratings house of acting as its competitor and claiming that it could not tru...

Australian equities have become the star performers of many portfolios in the past 12 months, and every day the market gets stronger. But, like all good things, it has to...

The mid-cap stocks enjoyed strong growth in 2004, and have been a favoured sector for investors, but should that be the only sector which investors focus on? The simple a...

It is a cruel irony that last year’s outperformance of the Australian equities sector should give few clues to fund manager performance during 2004 and the 12 months ahea...

BT Financial Group has given its planned new dealer group an identity, and confirmed that former Retireinvest chief executive Mark Spiers would head up the business....

Mariner Financial has become the latest fund manager to launch an American property trust, the Mariner American Property Income Trust, which it claims will target high-yi...

Merrill Lynch Investment Managers is bringing the highly diversified investment approach, philosophy and process of its US-based Global Allocation Fund to the Australian ...

Picking a fund manager that will consistently outperform over the long-term is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And while advisers have greater acc...