Australia’s funds management community is in the midst of a dramatic slump in profits and revenue, the latest annual Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) ...
Following his retrospective a month ago, TOM COLLINS looks forward and predicts what changes and trends will emerge over the next four years and the impact they will have...
Fund managers have thrown their support behind independent research trips with a number set to join a group of planners heading to the US and the UK later this year....
ASSIRT and Asgard will form a closer relationship in the future following the appointment of Caroline Saunders to oversee Assirt’s funds research business in addition to ...
Research house Morningstar today released a Business and Management Strenth (BMS) rating on AXA Australia, scoring the group with a mark of three representing a place in ...
MORNINGSTAR New Zealand is approaching fund managers with a proposal to move to a quantitative only model for managed funds research....
While SRIs have been an attractive option for many investors, the honeymoon may well be over. KATE KACHOR reports on what effect the current insurance crisis and the publ...
In an industry that has adopted ‘diversity’ as its mantra, KATE KACHOR found it wasn’t hard to find differing opinions when asking industry experts to pick sides in the r...
Who will pay for the costs of implementing the Financial Services Reform Act is a question that has been lost in the noise of the rollout of the Act. JASON SPITS examines...
The success of Australia’s Listed Property Trust (LPT) sector is driving the products, and those who invest in them, increasingly offshore. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....
Sealcorp chief executive Ian Knox has called for a comprehensive review of “soft dollar revenues” across the financial services industry....
Barclays Global Investors Australia is the first cab off the rank for Morningstar’s new qualitative rating process, and was graded with an overall score of four, meaning ...
Investors in socially responsible investments (SRI) will lose about 0.7 per cent per year on their investments compared to mainstream investments according to a report re...
Investors in socially responsible investments (SRI) will lose about 0.7 per cent per year on their investments compared to mainstream investments according to a report re...
A turf war between fund managers in New Zealand has triggered intervention from the Securities Commission....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...