The financial services industry says the Federal Government went a long way yesterday to arresting fears that any proposed anti-money laundering legislation would heap un...
The Australian funds management industry is continuing to experience good growth, but fund managers are going to have to do more to win the trust of investors, according ...
The Federal Government has sought to assure fund managers that it will play a largely hands-off role in the investment decisions of its $16 billion Future Fund, but has a...
A little known financial services group has started a petition calling for fund managers to be hit with cash penalties for failing to release clients’ superannuation with...
The Ethical Investment Association has launched a certification program for providers of SRI products and services, which it hopes will promote consistency and make it ea...
For Australia’s biggest financial planning dealer groups, managing conflicts is all about ensuring advisers have adequate choice....
Individual managed accounts (IMAs) have been touted as the next big thing in financial services for a number of years. Admittedly, nobody knows exactly how many funds und...
Fund managers will find it increasingly difficult to generate returns for their investors, and larger, more established managers are likely to be the ones struggling to p...
The Morningstar research house will drop qualitative measurements from its famed star rating of fund managers, announcing today that the ranking system would judge manage...
Poor returns in the materials and financial sectors have caused the Australian sharemarket to register an overall negative return on a month by month basis for the first ...
The annual Rate the Raters Survey conducted by Money Management gives fund managers an chance to turn the tables and rank those organisations whose business it is to anal...
The Rating the Raters survey 2005 was conducted using an online questionnaire and took place during February 2005. Participants were asked questions on areas such as rese...
Research methodologies and processes are the ultimate means by which one research house can differentiate itself from its competitors....
Ignoring their own rhetoric, balanced fund managers appear to relying on short-term results, writes LEEANNE BLAND....
Research groups generate an income from the fees charged to clients – either fund managers opting for a review, or subscription payments from advisers wishing to get regu...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....