MORNINGSTAR

Financial planning

Not one of the 13 alternative investment strategies most actively sold by financial advisers is worthy of a gold rating, ratings house, Morningstar believes....

image
Financial planning

Users of ‘robo-advice’ need to ask some basic questions of the online services including whether the operators have appropriate qualifications and experience in the inves...

image
Financial planning

Total Financial Solutions has signed an agreement with Ibbotson Associates to act as investment manager for its separately managed accounts and to provide investment cons...

image
Funds management

Retail clients lured by yield are buying unlisted bonds without considering the high risks and whether they suit their investment profile, according to Morningstar....

image
Funds management

Small cap managers should not be considered only on the size of their funds under management due to differing strategies in that sector of the market where stock values c...

image
Funds management

Active small cap fund managers have outperformed their index for the decade but are expected to find similar performance harder to replicate as the resources boom falls a...

image
Editorial

Mike Taylor questions whether research and ratings houses can be sustained and pursue growth as stand-alone businesses....

image
Funds management

The median Australian share fund manager was below par from the index return by 0.3 per cent over October, Morningstar Institutional Sector Survey showed....

image
Superannuation

Australian super funds’ median growth fund returned 1.4 per cent over October 2014, according to the Morningstar Australian Superannuation Survey. ...

image
Life/Risk

Investors are being encouraged to hold onto shares in property management business, GPT Group, following reports of improving occupancy rates in its office portfolio....

image
Editorial

Investing in stocks in Asia is not for the faint-hearted given the scope of the region and the range of investments on offer. However, as Jason Spits writes, accessing so...

image
Financial planning

Up and coming research and investments house Zenith Investment Partners has bumped established players, Morningstar and Lonsec, from the top spot to become Money Manageme...

image
Rate the raters

Zenith has been named Money Management’s Research House of the Year for 2014, taking the title from last year’s winner, Morningstar, writes Nicholas O’Donoghue. ...

image
Funds management

Research house claims the departure of PIMCO’s Bill Gross not a cause for alarm with PIMCO funds offered in Australia still regarded as high quality....

image

Australian super funds have started the new financial year on a positive note, with the median growth fund returning 0.8 per cent....

image
sub-bgsidebar subscription

Never miss the latest news and developments in wealth management industry

MARKET INSIGHTS

GG

So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...

1 month 3 weeks ago
Denise Baker

This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...

1 month 4 weeks ago
gonski

So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...

1 month 4 weeks ago

A Sydney-based financial adviser has been banned from providing financial services in the interest of consumer protection after failing to act on conduct concerns. ...

1 week 3 days ago

The Reserve Bank of Australia has made its latest rate call, with only two more meetings left for 2024....

3 weeks 4 days ago

Financial advisory group AZ NGA has announced a strategic partnership with a $294 billion global investment manager to support its acquisition plans....

2 weeks 5 days ago