Risk profiling group ProQuest is close to signing deals with four financial services groups in moves that will expand its Australian presence as well as launching its bra...
Putting together the data needed to compile the Money Management Top 100 dealer’s survey is not always a simple task. As such it is not something all dealer groups are pr...
Star ratings and other qualitative ratings are playing an increasingly powerful role in the funds management industry. Rob Keavney asks who is researching the researchers...
Morningstar has dropped another star off BT Fund Management’s rating, downgrading the fund manager from three to two stars....
Fund manager Tyndall Investment Manager has received conflicting ratings from two of the industry’s research houses....
Well-known financial services figure Bonnie Guilford has departed AMP Financial Planning and joined Timbercorp in the newly created position of marketing and technical ma...
Forget wrap accounts, screen scrapers and Internet broking, the next big battle in the financial service industry will take place on the financial planner’s desktop....
Recent missives fired from research houses raise serious questions about the star rating system used for rating managed funds in this country....
Global research group Standard & Poors is to take on Australia’s three research houses after finalising a deal with research group Investment Data Technologies (IDT)....
What’s in a master trust? Quite a bit, if you believe most of the hype written about them....
Five years have passed since ASSIRT rattled the market with news of its pay-to-be-rated scheme. Zilla Efrat revisits the debate and examines what has happened since....
Australian financial planners, and the research houses they rely on, come out "streets ahead" of their British and American counterparts, according to participants on the...
BT Funds Management has won over all but one of the dealer groups and research houses expressing doubts over BT’s management following its planned merger with Deutsche Ba...
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...