The Westpac Bank has confirmed today that it will pay $900 million to buy the BT Financial Group from its US parent, the Principal Financial Group, in a move that will se...
Hedge funds have done well in terms of both performance and distribution, but they are yet to be universally accepted on master trust menus. FIONA MOORE reports....
The rise of boutique fund managers has been propelled by their ability to deliver at a time when institutional fund managers are finding it tough. MARK KNIGHT reports on ...
Consolidating overseas superannuation money has a reputation for being hard to expedite. FIONA MOORE reports on what the process involves and how it can provide your clie...
SO YOU have built yourself a nice new investment platform and you want financial planners to use it....
Many master trust and wrap platforms will not meet their reporting deadlines to financial planners and their clients for the financial year just passed....
The success of Australia’s Listed Property Trust (LPT) sector is driving the products, and those who invest in them, increasingly offshore. GEORGE LIONDIS reports....
Macquarie Wrap Solutions has claimed the top place in funds inflows for discretionary master trusts and wraps after recording inflows of $1.2 billion during the March qua...
Lonsec has downgraded two of Rothschild Australia Asset Management’s funds from recommended to approved status, sighting the Westpac’s purchase of the fund manager introd...
With the expectation that master trust fees will come down at some point in the future, master trust providers are turning their attention to marketing campaigns as a way...
While master trusts and wraps make administration easier, they have also added another level of fees. JASON SPITS examines who gets what in the platform fee carve up....
The flip side of administration platform fees is the value that master trusts can help generate for a financial planning business. Tynan Mackenzie chief executive officer...
Master trust and wrap providers may be less concerned about fees than they are making out. GEORGE LIONDIS digs deep into the latest fee data....
Choosing the correct time to invest is crucial, but as DOMINIC McCORMICK says, investing when all the indicators are wrong is foolish....
The BT group is expected to join the growing list of major funds management groups in Australia to push headlong into the burgeoning hedge fund scene with the launch of a...
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....