FUNDS MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY

Editorial

The poor performance of some traditional asset classes is fuelling investor appetite for hedge funds. Craig Phillips asks whether this interest is part of a long-term phe...

Financial planning

The Canadian managed fund market has been blazing a trail in its take-up of fund-of-funds vehicles, with a three year asset capital annualised growth rate of 15 per cent....

Editorial

Craig Phillips looks back at some of the big funds management groups no longer in operation....

Financial planning

The Norwich Union owned Navigator platform is set to incorporate straight through processing (STP) throughout its operations, to the benefit of the 3,500 financial advise...

Financial planning

The Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA), the Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) will jo...

Financial planning

The funds management industry was given a respite from lacklustre markets in the second quarter of 2003, stimulating an improvement in the net inflow position compared to...

Editorial

The skill of a boutique fund manager is to find a niche and perform well within that speciality. Rural Funds Management seems to have found such a niche, as John Wilkinso...

Financial planning

The InvestorWeb Research Six Star Awards have been designed to identify and publicly recognise those fund managers that InvestorWeb Research attest to be premier fund man...

Financial planning

The big four banks are failing to attract top funds management inflows in the current climate, according to Assirt, due to a trend towards sector specialists and the fall...

Financial planning

Major banks will have to seriously rethink their strategies following disappointing earnings from their wealth management arms. Lisa Bowman reports....

Financial planning

Macquarie Funds Management now has almost $6 billion invested in Asian joint ventures after taking a 40 per cent stake in Taiwanese boutique fund management firm United S...

People & Products

Macquarie Funds Management (MFM) has expanded its investment team with two new recruits to meet the additional demands of its growth in funds under management....

Financial planning

UBS Global Asset Management (GAM) has repeated its success in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award by taking out top honours with a second back to b...

Funds management

In choosing which managers took poll positions in the Fund Manager of the Year (FMOTY) awards this year, Assirt employed the same process it has used in the past – combin...

Funds management

UBS Global Asset Management has repeated its success in the Money Management/Assirt Fund Manager of the Year Award by taking out top honours with a second back-to-back wi...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

2 months ago

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

2 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

4 months 1 week ago

A Sydney financial adviser has been permanently banned from providing any financial services, with the regulator deriding his “lack of integrity, trustworthiness and prof...

3 weeks 2 days ago

Minister for Financial Services, Stephen Jones, has provided further information about the second tranche of the Delivering Better Financial Outcomes (DBFO) reforms....

2 weeks 1 day ago

One licensee has lost 27 advisers in the past week, now sitting at zero, according to the latest Wealth Data figures....

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