FUND MANAGERS

Funds management

Australian property fund managers will increasingly look to the US for real estate opportunities, as investment in this asset class soars, according to Fiduciary Global A...

Superannuation

New research conducted by Mercer Oliver Wyman in the UK has identified four distinct life stages in the 50 plus age group, which it feels financial product providers will...

Financial planning

Chair of the Future Fund Board of Guardians, David Murray, has outlined that the Future Fund will not only act as a vehicle to meet the Government’s existing superannuati...

Financial planning

The unique process of equally combining quantitative and qualitative measures to construct portfolios has seen MIR finish first in the Australian equities - mid and large...

Financial planning

Convinced over time they will deliver returns in excess of the benchmark, researcher Zenith Investment Partners as added five products from the small companies sector to ...

Financial planning

AMP posted a 29 per cent jump in net cash inflows to $2.66 billion in the March quarter, and is flagging the strong run to continue in the wake of today’s Federal Budget ...

Financial planning

Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has introduced new measures to improve the transparency around fund ratings placed ‘on hold’....

Financial planning

It seems the sky is the limit for Advance Asset Management, which has announced that it is managing more than $7 billion of funds for retail and Australian investors....

Funds management

Macquarie Portfolio Management has expanded its range of hedge fund investment options, giving retail investors access to a global group of absolute return hedge fund man...

Rate the raters

Fund managers have again been given the opportunity to give their frank but anonymous assessment on the research houses which so frequently determine how the financial se...

Rate the raters

The Money Management Rating the Raters Survey 2006 collected opinions from 43 fund managers of varying size that control just over $537 billion in funds under management....

Financial planning

Much of the value of having a research house rate a financial product comes in the way of their perceived independence and their ability to offer a completely objective v...

Funds management

The 2006 Money Management Rating the Raters survey asked for feedback from fund managers about their experiences and dealings with the seven of the main researchers in th...

Financial planning

Fund managers have confirmed that the major research houses are still capable of significantly influencing their businesses, with 50 per cent expressing the view that res...

Financial planning

The FPA is expecting financial services providers to modify their products in response to market demands for separately disclosed product and advice fees following the im...

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