Last year saw one of the major investment research houses, Standard & Poor’s (S&P), exit the Australian market. ...
Do direct investors need protection from themselves? Jonathan Ramsay argues taking into account the fundamentals of underlying investments will pay off better than going ...
Although they haven’t exactly broken out the champagne, life has become a lot easier for fund managers over the past 12 months. Janine Mace examines the implications for ...
Having entered the financial services industry at virtually the same time that Money Management began publishing, Stephen van Eyk is a most appropriate recipient of the M...
As a result of RG79 section D, ‘Avoiding, controlling and disclosing conflicts of interest’, what has your firm changed, or what will it change, in terms of both its busi...
Research houses will embark on a campaign of actively promoting their compliance with conflict of interest requirements before the 1 September deadline imposed by ASIC RG...
The majority of Australian share fund managers are heavily overweight to the “quality” end of the share market while few hold bias towards value stocks....
Many investors are paying active fees and ending up with index-like returns, writes Jonathan Ramsay....
Ratings house van Eyk has completed the purchase of NZ-based Perpetual Asset Management and Perpetual Portfolio Management, the sale of which was first announced in Janua...
It is better to have the ability and the freedom to ignore the short run if you want superior returns, writes Jason Blumberg....
Grandfathering provisions in the FOFA legislation risk encouraging complacency in the advice industry, according to van Eyk Advice national practice manager Tony Zulli....
AMP has re-signed van Eyk to continue to provide access to its iRate platform to the group's financial planners....
AMP Financial Services has appointed Morningstar as its preferred partner for research consultancy services....
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) – a name synonymous with credit ratings and research the world over – will no longer have an Australian ratings and fund services presence from 1 ...
To help build its Australian sales and client relationship capabilities, Morningstar has appointed two business development managers....
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....