FUND MANAGERS

Editorial

Advisers face many choices when building a portfolio, but as Ross Kelly finds, putting all your eggs in one basket can be risky....

Financial planning

Factors such as branding, fund size, investment style, internal operations (and luck) have ensured that when it comes to the Australian equities sector over recent years,...

Financial planning

If there is one trend when it comes to investment products and vehicle, it seems that 2004 will see a shift away from traditional managed funds. FREYA PURNELL reports....

Editorial

Past performance is no indicatior of future performance is an oft qouted statement so then why is there any emphasis placed on it by fund managers and financial planners....

Editorial

Should we be really happy with a return of 7 per cent? DOMINIC McCORMICK says if we took currency more seriously, we could expect to get considerably more....

Financial planning

AMP has revamped its fledgling non-super AMP Flexible Lifetime Investments product, which was launched in June 2003, by expanding the offering to include 47 different inv...

Financial planning

From almost a standing start, Capstone Financial Planning has grown rapidly to earn a place on our list of Fastest Growing Independent Dealers....

Financial planning

Aurora Funds Management (AFM) – the brainchild of former Challenger International executives Alistair Davidson, Simon Lindsay, Hugh Latimer and Richard Matthews – came in...

Financial planning

How a rating house conducts its research has been a contentious issue for some time, but as Jason Spits writes, fund managers are still seeking an open and wide-ranging p...

Financial planning

An industry working party into soft dollar payments has called for the removal of a number of common forms of inducements in its recommendations announced today....

Financial planning

ING Australia will reverse the trend to move into retail with the launch of a wholesale version of its retail Tax Effective Income Trust tomorrow following the fund’s str...

Financial planning

Praemium Portfolio Services has struck a deal with InvestmentLink to offer advisers consolidated reporting and online transactions across all platforms and fund managers....

People & Products

Research house Assirt has signed former Colonial First State manager for institutional account management, Mark Hyde, as business development manager to head up its exter...

Funds management

Fund managers remain cautious in their outlook for investment markets this year despite rising levels of confidence stemming from the turnaround in equity market performa...

Financial planning

“Smart” financial planners will have made New Year’s Resolutions to change the way they run their business to meet consumer and regulatory expectations, according to Pres...

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