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Financial planning

Industry, government and corporate superannuation funds have been included for comparison in an updated version of a Mercer Investment Consulting superannuation fund asse...

Funds management

The use of hedge funds by financial planners is growing, but slowly. In many cases, it is only planners who have reached a certain level of competence that are allowed to...

Financial planning

Merger and acquisition activity in the business world generally runs in cycles. One organisation buys or merges with another, which in turn can trigger a frenzy of activi...

Financial planning

Research methodologies and processes are the ultimate means by which one research house can differentiate itself from its competitors....

People & Products

Credit Suisse Asset Management has suffered another blow to its struggling Australian equities capabilities, with the departure of group head Peter Sartori prompting one ...

Financial planning

One of the world’s largest fund managers has cut-off access to van Eyk Research, accusing the ratings house of acting as its competitor and claiming that it could not tru...

Financial planning

The research fund run by Insurance Australia Group’s funds management arm is Mercer Investment Consulting’s top performing Australian share manager in the 12 months to Ju...

Editorial

Defying the sceptics, AAS has managed to continue its role in the administration ‘new world order’, as Mike Taylor writes....

Editorial

A recent survey conducted by Mercer showed some useful results for the super industry preparing for choice of fund. Mike Taylor reports....

Financial planning

Barclays Diversified Growth was the star performer in Mercer’s pooled fund survey for the quarter to June 30, returning 3.8 per cent, against a median 3.2 per cent....

Financial planning

Mercer Global Investments added three diversified and four sector funds to its investment products range, taking a more aggressive approach to achieving returns whilst re...

Editorial

DAVID ANDERSON continues his look at what employers need to be doing in preparation for choice of fund...

Editorial

In the results of our Super Review Top Super Funds Survey one thing is clear: super fund numbers are rapidly shrinking. Mike Taylor reports...

Financial planning

Australian equities bounced back in May, regaining most of what they lost in April and keeping the S&P/ASX 300 above 20 per cent for the financial year to date....

Financial planning

The Australian and overseas sharemarkets continued to decline in April, with domestic equities producing their worst monthly return for over two years....

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

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This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...

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Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....

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