FUNDS MANAGEMENT

Financial planning

The recent enforceable undertaking imposed on AMP Financial Planning by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission has potentially made compliance with financia...

Editorial

St Andrew’s Australia has reported a pre-tax profit of $8.4 million for the half year ending June, 2005, up 147 per cent on the corresponding period last year....

Funds management

The former director of a funds management company has been convicted of making false and misleading statements and placed on a two-year good behaviour bond, following an ...

Funds management

An executive at a leading Australian funds management organisation has expressed concerns about the impact the Government’s Future Fund will have on investment markets in...

Financial planning

Challenger Financial Services has restructured its corporate reporting system to reflect the activities of its funds management and financial planning businesses (includi...

Funds management

Macquarie Bank will amalgamate its separate hedge fund businesses under the name MQ Specialist Investment Management (MQ)....

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Financial planning

The directors of a company that operated 15 unregistered managed investment schemes have been banned in the Queensland Supreme Court for 10 years and eight years respecti...

Financial planning

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello acknowledged Australia’s passing of the $1 trillion mark in consolidated assets by saying it reflected the nation’s status as the global ...

Funds management

Strong inflows to its newly launched Century Balanced Fund No 1 has helped direct property boutique Century Funds Management to a 16.1 per cent return (annualised over fi...

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Funds management

Westpac Funds Management has galvanised its aim to establish the first Australian residential real estate investment trust by securing the seed asset for the product via ...

Financial planning

Improved cash earnings and funds under management and administration have delivered record half-yearly results for IOOF, with net profit after tax jumping 64 per cent to ...

Financial planning

Research by InvestorWeb has found against a prevailing notion by local researchers that active fixed interest management doesn’t add value after fees....

Financial planning

The ACA has called for greater prudential control over unsecured investments following the winding up of two Westpoint mezzanine finance companies, and warned investors o...

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