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Features

Money Management explores what is needed for a successful fund manager succession plan as a generation of managers approach retirement and how firms can mitigate the risk...

Features

Investors are keeping an eye on three factors in markets, writes Alexandra Cain, which could drive positive performance in 2022....

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Rate the raters

Oksana Patron examines how research houses feel about the ratings ascribed to them by financial planners and how they addressed the potential conflict of interest areas....

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Funds management

Hejaz Financial Services has become the first firm to have an Islamic managed fund rated by an Australian ratings agency, as the firm applies for a banking licence....

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Funds management

Pengana Capital has received two ratings for its international funds after being put ‘on hold’ and seeing redemptions following the departure of two portfolio managers....

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Rate the raters

After years of indecisiveness, fund managers have voted for the stability of research teams while identifying potential conflicts of interest, Oksana Patron writes....

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Funds management

Although research houses tend to take a case-by-case approach, it’s usually not the fund performance but movement of the key personnel and client business that leads to c...

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Financial planning

Major financial advice licensees appear to be benefiting from increased competition between the funds management research houses but the news appears not so good for the ...

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Rate the raters

For the first time in more than four years financial planners have chosen Morningstar as their preferred research house, effectively ending the long-lasting reign of Lons...

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Funds management

The finalists have been announced for the 2020 Fund Manager of the Year Awards – the first year in which a whole of market approach to judging the awards has been adopted...

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Features

Although Lonsec has managed to retain its momentum and attracted the highest ratings from financial planners for the third year in a row, planners say it might be time to...

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People & Products

Brendan Irwin has been appointed by SQM Research as full-time senior investment analyst where he will be responsible for managed fund research and ratings....

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Funds management

Fund managers have recognised the growing presence of SQM Research in the first part of Money Management’s “Rate the Raters” survey....

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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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Insignia Financial has confirmed it is considering a preliminary non-binding proposal received from a US private equity giant to acquire the firm. ...

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Six of the seven listed financial advice licensees have reported positive share price growth in 2024, with AMP and Insignia successfully reversing earlier losses. ...

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Specialist wealth platform provider Mason Stevens has become the latest target of an acquisition as it enters a binding agreement with a leading Sydney-based private equi...

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