DKN wraps it up with BT

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3 November 2004
| By George Liondis |

DKN Financial Group has linked up with BT Financial Group to offer a new investment platform to its network of advisers.

The listed financial services group announced today the new platform, which is a re-badged version of the BT wrap, would be available to its own authorised representatives, as well as the independent dealer groups who use its range of services.

DKN has 130 advisers under its own Australian Financial Services Licence. A further 300 advisers use the group’s range of platforms and other financial planning products.

While the details are considered commercially sensitive, DKN’s general manager of distribution, Andrew Rutter, said it had negotiated a competitive fee-structure with BT.

He said the group already had commitments from some advisers to transition “$100 million from other well known platforms” to the new wrap.

“What we have done is add a comprehensive full service wrap to our products at an extremely competitive price, which is what we wanted to do in the market,” Rutter said.

“It also goes to show the leverage buying power of the group.”

DKN has a number of existing platforms, including a master trust it took on as part of its merger with AustChoice.

AustChoice, a company collectively owned by a network of independent advisers, merged with Deakin in January this year.

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