Lifeplan Financial Group has begun discussions with two fund managers with a view to a merger or acquisition within the next few months. ...
Global sector funds may be the flavour of the month for funds management marketeers, but there is a limit to the number of sectors that can be realistically used....
Australia’s four biggest banks have stamped their dominance on the funds management industry, taking four spots in the top ten inflows for the three months to the end of ...
As some of the gloss fades from dot.com stocks and the Internet, investors are increasingly turning to the potentially lucrative biotechnology market. But, as John Wilkin...
Virgin boss Richard Branson has confirmed what many in the industry have thought for years. Virgin is about to bring its brand of financial services distribution to Austr...
Strategic Investments Australia, the new holding group of the Strategic Super Master Plan, is performing due diligence on two small master trusts with a view to acquisiti...
Earnings growth from US equities will remain strong enough for good returns as that economy heads for a soft landing, according to Deutsche global chief investment office...
A cloud hangs over the business of providing outsourcing services for fund managers, following the decision by Macquarie Portfolio Services to close its wholesale outsour...
New Zealand’s funds management industry says overseas-based fund managers may snare most of the business for the Government’s proposed superannuation fund....
Strategic Investments Australia, the new holding group of the Strategic Super Master Plan, is performing due diligence on two small master trusts with a view to acquisiti...
Phillip Matthews has been named as the first permanent chief executive the Financial Planning and Insurance Advisers Association (FPIA)....
Fund managers see IT development, customer service, investment management and custody as the biggest growth areas for outsourcing in the next 12 months, William M. Mercer...
US fund managers have taken advantage of laws allowing them to sell funds over the Internet using electronic signatures....
Skandia doesn’t do manufacturing and it doesn’t do retailing. Stuart Engel discovers exactly what it is the Swedish based financial services giant intends to do in Austra...
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 ...