Firms are prepared to pay up to three times more than the usual price for a fund manager with significant funds under management (FUM), according to the latest analysis f...
A Melbourne-based portfolio administration service plans to launch a virtual self- managed account option for investors by March....
The Australian funds management market place is being increasingly dominated by the top five fund managers, who now control 67 per cent of the total market by size....
Short-term market forecasts are about as useful as horoscopes, says DOMINIC McCORMICK....
When is a master trust not a master trust? When it behaves like a fund manager. Peter Worcester reports....
The Australian funds management market place is being increasingly dominated by the top five fund managers, who now control 67 per cent of the total market by size....
The Intech Financial Services research group has rejigged its benchmarks for investment performance to reflect the litany of fund managers who disappear from the radar sc...
The Morningstar research house has announced sweeping changes to its rating of fund managers and their funds in Australia, less than one week after dismissing its head of...
The value of BT to a big bank like Westpac lay in its wrap account platforms and that, argues LEO WASSERCUG, is a sign of the times....
Newly launched boutique funds management group Select Asset Management is looking to release two funds as part of its strategy to establish itself as an ‘absolute return’...
Sealcorp Holdings has announced that it has sold off the Wealthpoint name and fully reabsorbed Assirt Research bringing the ownership of the latter full circle after it w...
The Asgard master trust has taken out the top prize in this year’s Assirt Service Level awards after being voted the best investment platform in the country by financial ...
With an influx of new players into financial planning, NICK BRUINING reckons its time to check the definitions of some well-known industry terms, just to put the newcomer...
The Top 100 Dealers Survey is punctuated by the moves of dealer groups, which are often the result of large wallets and large deals. SIMON SEGAL looks at what went down b...
Having the biggest planner force is no sign of success. As JOHN WILKINSON writes, some of the lesser lights are advising on even greater sums for wealthier clients than t...
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....