FUND MANAGERS

Financial planning

Australians are continuing their push into SMSFs, but most financial advisers have not thought about the risks associated with a direct equity portfolio, according to Ins...

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Editorial

Platforms are facing pressure from all sides, Milana Pokrajac writes. How will they deal with changing financial adviser demands, low investor sentiment and fast approach...

Editorial

Dissatisfaction with the performance of traditional managed funds and the resulting criticism may see the rise of multi-asset solutions, according to Dominic McCormick....

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Financial planning

Despite a wave of indiscriminate selling by Western investors, the fundamentals remain strong for Asian equities, writes Tim Stewart....

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Editorial

Since their arrival on our shores about a decade ago, managed accounts have remained largely dormant in Australia. But with continuing market volatility and the imminent ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Government's second tranche of its FOFA legislation has come down hard on shelf space fees, soft dollar and offshore conferences....

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Financial planning

Listed property appears to be returning to its previous model and slowly becoming a defensive asset again, resulting in more positive financial adviser and investor attit...

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Financial planning

PortfolioConstruction Forum presents the most recent projects conducted by major funds research houses over the past month....

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Editorial

PortfolioConstruction Forum presents the most recent projects conducted by major funds research houses over the past month....

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Financial planning

Bond benchmarks are "structurally flawed", and bond performance targets for fund managers should instead be referenced to cash, according to Standard Life Investments hea...

Financial planning

Lonsec has again been named Money Management's Ratings House of the Year on the back of strong support from fund managers and dealer groups and despite a resurgent van Ey...

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Rate the raters

Claims by the financial planning industry that all industry participants, including research providers, should be liable for some client losses has been met with a mixed ...

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Rate the raters

Lonsec has yet again emerged as a favourite among dealer groups with its back-to-back victory in Money Management’s Rate the Raters survey, while van Eyk Research grabbed...

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Financial planning

Hyperion warns of the perils of short-termism and index hugging....

Funds management

A trend towards low performance hurdles and high outperformance fees among fund managers has drawn criticism from ratings houses amid suggestions there should be an indus...

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