Research houses will embark on a campaign of actively promoting their compliance with conflict of interest requirements before the 1 September deadline imposed by ASIC RG...

AMP Capital is investing significant resources in developing products specifically for SMSFs and is currently looking to recruit an executive to focus on this area....

BNP Paribas Securities Services has signaled it will be leveraging its recently granted Australian banking licence by expanding its product offering in Australia....

The majority of Australian share fund managers are heavily overweight to the “quality” end of the share market while few hold bias towards value stocks....

Financial advisers have been listed as the dominant distributors of retail structured products in Australia by research undertaken by IOSCO. ...

Investors cautioned against using ETFs to gain exposure to emerging markets....

Dealer groups are not the only financial services companies being forced to adapt to the new FOFA environment, with Instreet Investment’s George Lucas explaining that fun...

BGL Corporate Solutions has partnered with Aberdeen and Schroders to provide automated contract notes from managed funds....

The Australian funds management industry is the fourth largest in the world and has reached its $2 trillion milestone at the end of last year....

The benefits of active management in the debt market can help investors steer clear of a wide range of problems, explains Warwick Boys....

NAB Asset Servicing has connected to the Calastone global transaction network to facilitate its interaction with fund managers....

According to Towers Watson, fund managers’ return expectations for US and Australian equity markets are at their lowest since 2008....

Increased regulatory scrutiny faced by research houses from 1 September this year might result in increased costs....

Both major global listed property indices returned more than 25 per cent over the year to November 2012, but most fund managers fell short of the benchmark, according to ...