FUND MANAGERS

Editorial

For those looking for the big bucks, funds management is still the sector for lucrative packages. In particular, investment specialists continue to be well-remunerated, w...

Financial planning

It is a cruel irony that last year’s outperformance of the Australian equities sector should give few clues to fund manager performance during 2004 and the 12 months ahea...

Financial planning

Local fund managers are sure to cash in on a decision today by US-based research giant Morningstar to include Australian funds on its global research platform, the head o...

Financial planning

The secretary of the ACTU, Greg Combet has expressed concern that superannuation funds are too often being placed under pressure to achieve good short-term returns at the...

Financial planning

The evolution of financial planning systems has taken various forms, as the complexity of advisers’ business practices grows. Traditionally, there has been the front-end ...

Financial planning

Sales for agribusiness schemes have broken through the $1 billion barrier for the 2005 financial year with eucalypts contributing most, research house Adviser Edge has re...

Editorial

Picking a fund manager that will consistently outperform over the long-term is like finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And while advisers have greater acc...

Financial planning

Creating a point of difference from other dealer groups is the reason for the jump in adviser numbers at Australian Financial Services, says chief executive officer Peter...

Financial planning

The rise of platforms is killing off small funds managers, with advisers today placing only half the assets direct with managers that they did three years ago....

Financial planning

Van Eyk and property research group, Managed Investment Assessments have released the first report completed under a strategic alliance formed by the companies in April t...

Financial planning

Despite being on offer for just a year, Asgard Elements has taken top spot in the platform category of this year’s Assirt/Wealth Insights Service Level Awards, while Macq...

Superannuation

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Funds management

Boutique fund managers have completely outrated their larger rivals to dominate the Australian equities category in the 2005 Money Management Fund Manager of the Year awa...

Financial planning

Treasurer Peter Costello has dismissed the recent slide in the Australian sharemarket as the correction we had to have....

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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...

4 weeks ago

Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

1 month ago

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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