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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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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...

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

The federal government will act on its promise to make administering super guarantee payments easier for employers next Monday by launching a new streamlined electronic p...

The recent decision by UBS to prevent van Eyk from reviewing its funds has focused attention on whether a conflict of interest exists where a research house offers servic...

The Investment and Financial Services Association has called for a three-year deferral of the introduction of dollar fee disclosure regulations on closed financial servic...