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Financial planning

Perpetual Investment’s new global equities arm has signed-up two key new wholesale clients in the Irish and Australian marketplace....

Financial planning

Australian investors should underweight their allocation to small cap international equities to no more than 5 per cent of their portfolio, despite small caps outperformi...

Financial planning

Van Eyk has acted on its belief that ‘growth’ stocks are cheap globally, replacing Wellington International Management with what it has called a “deeper growth” manager f...

Financial planning

Fund managers have delivered a strong rebuke to research groups who diversify into investment management, with over 80 per cent claiming the move creates serious conflict...

Financial planning

The recent decision by UBS to prevent van Eyk from reviewing its funds has focused attention on whether a conflict of interest exists where a research house offers servic...

Financial planning

Listed property trusts were the darling of the Australian market in 2004, returning 32 per cent. No one believes there will be a repeat performance in 2005, but more than...

Rate the raters

The power of research houses is highlighted by the recent decision of UBS to no longer allow its funds to be rated by van Eyk, which it sees as a competitor....

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research managing director Stephen van Eyk has taken the group’s highly-public dispute with UBS Global Asset Management to the Swiss manager’s global headquarters...

Financial planning

The widely anticipated acquisition of St. George-owned Assirt Research by Standard and Poor’s was given a mixed reception by the market last week with opinions on the dea...

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research has forged two new research alliances and is finalising a third, as it fills in gaps on its ‘irate’ on-line investment rating tool....

Financial planning

Investors should allocate 25 per cent of their portfolio to international equities as growing volatility on global markets gives good stock pickers better scope for outpe...

Financial planning

Rival researchers have expressed an interest in buying out Assirt Research, as its St George Bank owner refuses to pour cold water on speculation it has put the business ...

Financial planning

Mercer Investment Consulting continues with its push into the retail and institutional research markets, adding two more staff to its growing stable of consultants and li...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

The small caps sector has reached its peak and will be unable to sustain its current high level of performance, a new report has warned....

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Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

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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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ASIC has suspended the Australian Financial Services Licence of a Melbourne-based financial advice firm....

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The corporate regulator has issued infringement notices to three AFSLs whose financial advisers provided personal advice to a retail client while unregistered....

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ASIC has released the results of its first adviser exam to be held in 2025, with 241 candidates attempting the test....

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