FUND MANAGERS

Financial planning

Two years ago, the funds management back office outsourcing market was dominated by BT Portfolio Services and Perpetual Fund Services. Perpetual’s move to sell off its ou...

Financial planning

Sealcorp will begin to rebate fees to clients who have investments placed through the Asgard master trust according to Sealcorp chief executive Ian Knox....

Financial planning

The explosion of ethical funds has come at a time of increasing interest and the search for new sectors in which to invest. Mark Watmore examines the growth of this marke...

Funds management

Despite a flurry of activity hedge funds appear to have gone off the boil. John Wilkinson takes a look at what slowed down this sector and when it will rebound....

Editorial

Asset consultants, research houses and financial planners sometimes argue that fund managers rarely outperform their benchmark index. The question is then asked why we pa...

Financial planning

Fund managers are divided over whether they should help the Government fund the Office of the Retirement Commissioner....

Funds management

Since the earliest days of the financial planning industry, fund managers have treated financial planners to all manners of luxury. ...

Financial planning

In the year of the tech-wreck in global equity markets, declining interest rates and a slowing global economy, those fund managers who stuck to investment fundamentals ha...

Financial planning

Selling short has been the key to Platinum Asset Management’s winning performance in 2000, says investor services manager Liz Norman....

Editorial

The world over it has been a particularly volatile period in fixed-interest markets. ...

Editorial

The success of Credit Suisse and UBS Asset Management in this year’s Money Management Assirt Fund Manager of the Year awards marks a significant turning point for the Aus...

Financial planning

The managed funds and master trusts industry could save up to $700 million per year if it adopted an information exchange, which would provide standardised electronic dat...

Financial planning

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) says it is building a back office system to simplify transactions between fund managers....

Financial planning

Armed with a preliminary discussion paper from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and some overseas research, it is timely to consider the implications of the ASX’s tent...

Financial planning

Fairfax owned online information site f2 has entered the online financial services market to relaunch tradingroom.com.au, with new partner, Macquarie....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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