Zurich Financial Services Australia has tweaked its blended series of funds by adding Barclays Global Investors to give five of its blended portfolios a small component o...
Westpac Bank has become the second big fish in as many months to sign-up emerging technology firm Coin Software at the expense of more established players, after the bank...
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has ended almost a year of speculation about the structure of its new financial planning venture by unveiling a suite of initiati...
Australian fund managers could be missing out on a golden opportunity by neglecting commodities and other global resource stocks, according to an industry review of the s...
Boutique investment group, Aurora Funds Management (AFM) has launched it’s first offering to the domestic market one year on since it’s inception in the latter half of 20...
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has appointed Coin Software and van Eyk Research as part of its extensive advice model review....
The perfect financial planning software will do just about everything, except make the coffee. But even with rapid development we’re not quite there yet, as Freya Purnell...
While Mercer has been entrenched in the asset consulting scene for many years, it is a relatively new player in the retail research space. Freya Purnell looks at the rise...
It may have begun as an afterthought, but today van Eyk Research is leading the pack. Ross Kelly reports....
Diversified fixed income funds composed of alternative asset classes such as hybrid securities and global high yield corporate bonds are only achieving average performanc...
Coin Financial Software’s foray into the financial planning software market is gathering pace with a number of dealer groups signing up to its flagship offering Strategy ...
Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (ADAM) head of Australian equities Mark Finselbach left the group yesterday after submitting his resignation last Friday - a move quickl...
The research market has been a busy area of financial services over the last 12 months particularly as a market of five players – IWL, Assirt, Morningstar, Lonsec and van...
OFM Investment Group will be launching a new range of friendly society bonds using van Eyk’s Blueprint Funds....
It has been an eventful year for Garrisons, with a change in the structure of the parent company being the most significant. John Wilkinson reports....
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...