FUNDS MANAGEMENT

Funds management

With yields at historical lows, many investors are missing out on the flexibility of actively-managed fixed income portfolios due to a lack of understanding. ...

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Funds management

Despite the subcontinent's emerging market reputation, India-focused funds are facing challenges in gaining interest from global investors, a sector report from instituti...

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Editorial

Investing in equities offshore has for the past few years been a quick way to add some negatives to a balance sheet, and even the most hardened investors found the going ...

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Editorial

While investing offshore is beginning to look attractive once again, even the experts recognise there are potential problems for the unwary among the opportunities, and t...

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Financial planning

Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia) has been fined $120,000 by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP) for not ensuring that it had in place organisational and technical reso...

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Funds management

The FSC has opposed further regulation of licensed trustee companies following proposals put forward by CAMAC with regards to charitable trusts....

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Superannuation

New FSC analysis points to declines in employer super contributions in two out of the past three quarters....

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Funds management

ASIC consultation brings ASX platform a step closer but narrows its focus....

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People & Products

Kevin White joins Easton Investment as managing director ...

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Financial planning

AFA chief executive Brad Fox says the AFA will re-engage with the FSC around churn but that the major insurers must also ante up....

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Funds management

Responding to the growing demand for direct equities, Australian Unity Personal Financial Services is in the process of rolling out a direct equity policy for its adviser...

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Funds management

Institutional investors are likely to increase allocations to real assets in 2013, according to AMP Capital’s latest Institutional Investor Report; however, results are s...

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Superannuation

An ASFA submission has confirmed the degree to which super funds are evolving to meet the retail market....

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Financial planning

The Trust Company (Trust) has been named as a defendant in a case brought in the Federal Court of Australia by a debenture holder of Australian Capital Reserve (ACR)...

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Funds management

With equity markets starting look more favourable, a multi-asset portfolio approach may help to mitigate the effects of short-term risks in a low-return, high-volatility ...

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