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Financial planning

Principal Global Investors’ aggressive expansion strategy in Australia has boosted its presence on financial planning dealer group approved product lists from 14 to 32 in...

Financial planning

Recent research commissioned by fund manager Vanguard Investments Australia has revealed that many of the managed funds in which people choose to place their money may be...

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Financial planning

Australian fund managers have tipped their cap at research house, Lonsec, declaring them the research house they consider most influential....

Financial planning

Former head of IOOF retail funds management Jarrod Brown has landed a new post with research house Standard & Poor’s as its executive investment services....

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has completed the sale of its mutual fund data business to Morningstar and will now license the data back for use in its research and ratings serv...

Financial planning

Standard & Poor’s has entered into an agreement to sell the managed funds data arm of its operations to Morningstar for US$55 million....

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Financial planning

Funds investing in local and global property securities and blend-style share funds were the dominant players among Australian managed funds launched during the past 12 m...

Financial planning

One of the better performing investment strategies employed by superannuation funds in 2006 were multi-sector options with high weightings to local shares, according to r...

Financial planning

Vanguard is continuing its push into Asia, with South Korea next in its sights....

Policy & Regulation

Vanguard Investments Australia has warned investors to be wary about the tax implications of high portfolio turnover in regard to the net returns they are expecting to re...

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Editorial

More and more planners chasing consistent returns are happy to blend indexed and non-indexed product. Why? Because it all comes back to the view that out performance invo...

Superannuation

Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees are matching fund managers for investment performance, according to a survey by SMSF provider Multiport....

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