FUNDS MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY

Financial planning

Not many fund managers can claim to have escaped the industry shake-out over the past two years. But Macquarie Funds Management is one of them. Simon Segal reports....

Editorial

Suncorp Metway has recorded a slight profit increase in the six months to December last year, despite a sharp drop in the performance of its wealth management division....

Financial planning

This is the second annual Money Management Agribusiness Survey and we believe is still the only widely published listing of projects that includes financial details....

Financial planning

The risk industry has for some time been under pressure to perform and, as Jason Spits writes, risk writers have strong opinions about what is right, what is wrong and wh...

Financial planning

A decline in total assets under management in Australia as well as continuing weak fund inflows is creating a situation Assirt believes could have “severe consequences” f...

Financial planning

The Advance Imputation Fund has been given a six star rating by InvestorWeb Research (IWL), with the research house rating the fund as an “exceptional buy.”...

Financial planning

The value of BT to a big bank like Westpac lay in its wrap account platforms and that, argues LEO WASSERCUG, is a sign of the times....

Financial planning

The retail funds management industry has suffered its second consecutive quarter of decline dropping three per cent from $236 billion to $229 billion over the September q...

Financial planning

The Top 100 Dealers Survey is punctuated by the moves of dealer groups, which are often the result of large wallets and large deals. SIMON SEGAL looks at what went down b...

Financial planning

Competition amongst Australia’s providers of retail funds management research is set to intensify, with two minor players renewing their push for a bigger slice of the bu...

Financial planning

WHILE it was the year Money Management was born, most people’s strongest memories centre around market upheavals – the 1987 sharemarket crash in particular....

Financial planning

LIFE insurance houses have finally admitted what the funds management industry has known for some time – that third party financial planners hold the reins when distribut...

Financial planning

Independent financial advisors (IFAs) in Britain are set to snatch more than 50 per cent of the local retail funds management market by 2006, in spite of legislation to d...

Financial planning

Ausmaq is planning to launch its first broadside in the already highly competitive race to become the pre-eminent provider of a managed fund hub for the Australian funds ...

Superannuation

One of the most watched issues in financial services has been member investment and funds choice when it comes to superannuation funds....

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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 1 day 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 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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