WHILE it was the year Money Management was born, most people’s strongest memories centre around market upheavals – the 1987 sharemarket crash in particular....

My experience with Money Management began in 1993 when I walked into the offices of Australian Financial Press. I was an advertising executive who didn’t know the differe...

Fledgling property fund manager MacarthurCook has launched a bid to take control of listed property developer Lion Equities....

As the banks move into financial services in a big way, most notably with Westpac’s acquisition of BT, conventional wisdom says that big is better. TOM COLLINS begs to di...

Most Australians are not ready for choice of superannuation fund despite the Government’s most recent attempt to put the policy firmly back on the agenda, a survey conduc...

In Assirt’s rating of fund manager Zurich, the research house believed the integration process of the Zurich Scudder and Deutsche Asset Management businesses will bode we...

The US economy is facing another five years of see-sawing economic activity, although the outcome of the Iraq crisis will have some impact on future trends, says Daniel F...

BNP Paribas Asset Management has confirmed that it has already shed some staff and will possibly lose more in the wake of its decision today to sell off its Australian eq...

AN ALLIANCE of high-net-worth investors has launched a stinging criticism of the quality of the financial advice they receive and accused financial planners of being tain...

THERE currently exists a level of euphoria surrounding individually managed accounts (IMAs) in the Australian investment marketplace that is highly questionable....

In the last article I discussed what I believe are the limitations to the current approach to asset allocation of much of the financial planning (and funds management) in...

The Westpac Bank’s acquisition of the BT Financial Group has continued to wreak havoc on the beleaguered fund manager’s Australian equities capabilities, with two investm...

Invesco Australia today appointed Aaron Finlay to the role of chief financial officer, a week after chief executive Michael Parsons made way for incoming chief Mark Armou...

Westpac’s acquisition of BT Financial Group should be a minor boon to investors with BT Funds Management (BTFM), but investors at Sagitta Wealth Management could face a p...