Standard & Poor's half-yearly fixed interest peer review said active managers continued to struggle in 2012 as issues in peripheral Europe showed no signs of abating....
With less money going around, boutique fund managers are facing a dangerous period and those with unsustainable business structures are set to be driven out of the market...
Hyperion Asset Management has appointed Will Hartnell as a dealer and analyst, bringing the fund manager's Brisbane-based investment team to five....
Russell Investments is set to launch a new survey which would measure and rank fund managers on their after-tax returns....
The results of the first part of Money Management’s annual Rate the Raters survey are in and Lonsec seems to have come out on top yet again, albeit by a smaller margin. B...
Leveraging worldwide resources, Mercer’s global status has helped win respect for its research methods among the majority of fund managers in Money Management’s Rate the ...
Zenith may be the underdogs when comparing the resources of other ratings houses, but Money Management’s Rate the Raters 2012 proved you don’t need shiny toys to play wit...
While the impact of recent redundancies and a shift in focus towards alternatives will not be felt until next year’s survey, one area van Eyk improved on in 2011 was the ...
Morningstar’s rating in this year’s survey of fund managers has slightly deteriorated over the past 12 months, particularly in the area of methodology....
Morningstar's Kathryn Young discusses the pitfalls lurking in trailing returns data and the best ways an investor can use it in fund assessment....
During the GFC, direct property had a number of issues related to manager capability, asset quality, illiquidity and gearing. However, the sector has been working hard to...
Boutique fund manager Bennelong Funds Management has shone a light on the competitive pressures facing managers in the current environment, saying that boutiques are shut...
The number of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) using a RG146-compliant financial adviser has continued to decline, sitting at 52 per cent, according to Investmen...
2020 DIRECTINVEST founder Michael Lannon has retired from the business just three months after its merger with Mason Stevens....
The liquidity issues that caused a number of mortgage funds to be frozen at the height of the global financial crisis have been addressed and these funds can now offer re...
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 ...