Financial planners who receive payments for using investment platforms will face tougher disclosure requirements under new guidelines being considered by the Financial Pl...

Van Eyk has moved to deflect attention from a spate of recent departures to competing research group, Mercer Investment Consulting, by announcing a new head of distributi...

Size is becoming increasingly irrelevant for financial advisers, who are shunning the big institutional fund managers in favour of boutique operations....

Some small cap funds have reopened their doors in recent times, but others think the sector is on the way down. Liam Egan reports....

Growth orientated super funds have had a bumpy start to the 2004/05 financial year but ended the September quarter in positive fashion after global shares markets, Austra...

Research group Lonsec’s scepticism as to the capacity of domestic fund managers to establish thriving global equity arms has prompted it to place Perpetual Trustees Austr...

Australian fund managers could be missing out on a golden opportunity by neglecting commodities and other global resource stocks, according to an industry review of the s...

ING re-opened its small companies fund to retail investors yesterday following a 20 per cent drop in funds under management since the fund closed to avoid potential capac...

Equity Trustees is to re-open its EQT Small Companies Fund to retail investors following an 18 per cent growth in the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index since th...

Macquarie has won back to back flags in the 13th annual Assirt Research Service Level Awards, taking out both prizes for best platform provider and fund manager for the s...

Just a few years ago, individually managed accounts (IMAs) were heading for the top of the charts with a bullet. Things didn’t work out exactly as planned, writes John Wi...

Platform provider Navigator today became the latest fund manager to roll-out its own Term Allocated Pension products ahead of law changes that will see the new income str...

Melbourne-based boutique property fund manager SG Hiscock has launched a domestic equities investment division and hired former HSBC Asset Management head of Australian e...

Australian Unity director and head of funds management John Linehan is set to leave the group in mid-September, to be replaced by a yet-to-be-named successor who will be ...