PROPERTY

Financial planning

Independent platform provider Netwealth has added an employer sponsored superannuation option to its series of master trusts, while at the same time boosting the number o...

Financial planning

The Chinese wall between Deutsche Asset Management’s Paladin and Sentinel Australian listed property teams will come down next month, when the two merge....

Financial planning

A Sydney-based finance broker has felt the wrath of the corporate watchdog for a second time after being convicted in the Central Local Court of managing a company while ...

Financial planning

A fourth option for advisers wanting exposure to offshore listed property trusts has emerged, with AMP Capital Investors launching a retail version of its Global Property...

Funds management

Research house Zenith Investment Partners has put global property funds on its recommended list for the first time, but shunned those managed solely from Australia....

Superannuation

Nearly two thirds of Australians are not confident of having enough money to retire on comfortably, according to a consumer survey by advertising agency Patterson Partner...

Financial planning

Steve Kyling’s departure after six years at Challenger Howard Mortgage Trust has seen Lonsec downgrade the product, while his new employers, MFS, have coincidentally had ...

Financial planning

The investment management arm of Australian Unity has flagged that it will expand its product range early in 2005, both through in-house development and possible joint ve...

Financial planning

Australian growth orientated superannuation funds delivered the best returns for nine years in 2004, but the good times aren’t expected to keep on rolling according to In...

Financial planning

AMP Capital Investors has received mixed results from its latest Assirt Research review, with the researcher concluding the manager still faces an uphill battle to rebuil...

Financial planning

A buoyant Australian equity market helped fund managers to their best returns in over a decade last year....

Financial planning

ROSS KELLY reports on why chasing past fund returns is a backward strategy....

Superannuation

Are your clients heading north? Owen Weeks explores why the great Australian exodus could spell disaster for retirees. ROSS KELLY investigates....

Financial planning

The good news looks like continuing for most Australian superannuation fund members, with the latest InTech data pointing to double digit returns through to the end of th...

Financial planning

Equities are back and like clockwork so is investor interest, with investors returning to shares from defensive asset classes such as property and cash after the exodus o...

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