FUND MANAGER

Funds management

Boutique value manager, Investors Mutual Limited (IML), has scored the first ever Rising Star Award, which recognises new and emerging managers across the industry....

Financial planning

Financial markets provided investors with some respite in March with the median fund manager in the InTech growth survey returning 1.64 per cent over the month....

Financial planning

BT Funds Management will offer its nine Partner Funds to the retail market and allow investors to access investment managers previously only available through its wrap pl...

Financial planning

Melbourne based financial planner and past Financial Planning Association (FPA) chair, John Hewison launched an attack on managed funds at the Certified Financial Planner...

Funds management

UBS Global Asset Management has repeated its success in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award by taking out top honours with a second back-to-back wi...

Financial planning

The Association of Independently Owned Financial Planners (AIOFP) has released a position paper slamming the industry over conflicts of interest and calling for greater l...

Financial planning

Research houses Lonsdale Securities (Lonsec), Morningstar and InvestorWeb have maintained their support for JBWere, following its merger with Goldman Sachs, which was for...

Financial planning

Perennial Investment Partners has been given a poor rating by research house Morningstar due mainly to the fund manager’s continued “sub-par returns” over the medium to l...

Financial planning

Australian boutique fund manager Select Asset Management has announced a joint venture with European hedge fund manager Aspect Capital to increase its absolute return foc...

Financial planning

Recent damning television reports about the industry may not be all they seem, says Nick Bruining....

Rate the raters

The last 12 months were as turbulent for research houses as for the managers they rate and, as Jason Spits writes, this was reflected in the second annual Rate the Raters...

Rate the raters

Rating processes are usually a point of contention and as Ben Abbott writes, this year’s Rating the Raters survey was no exception....

Financial planning

AXA chief executive officer Les Owen says that despite all the recent bad news the outlook for the Australian wealth management market looks good....

Rate the raters

Whichever way you cut the data, van Eyk Research beats the other research houses hands down. Julie Bennett reports....

Financial planning

Mercer Investment Consulting is set to produce publicly available fund manager and product ratings, a move that could see the group in direct competition with the likes o...

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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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