Asgard and Macquarie have come out on top in this year’s Assirt/Wealth Insights Service Level Survey, voted by financial planners as the best platform provider and fund m...
Financial planners have shown an increasing willingness to provide administration services for self-managed superannuation funds in response to rule changes regarding sup...
Retail managed funds have increased by 20.2 per cent from last year, to a total of $467.4 billion at the end of March, according to new Plan for Life research....
The Macquarie Financial Services Group has stipulated the proposed sale of Walter Scott & Partners to Mellon Financial Corporation in the US will have no effect on the op...
Macquarie Bank has announced a 13 per cent increase in its reported earnings for the year to March 31, 2006....
Financial planning software providers VisiPlan and Coin have jointly released a set of standards for use in the development of interfaces between platforms and front-end ...
Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State (CBA/CFS) has topped a list of “Super Star” performers in the platform space for 2005 based on research that considered a combinati...
There are many different ways of viewing the Australian funds industry. In broad terms, there’s the total funds market and within that, there is the retail, wholesale and...
Nothing much has changed in the platform market during the past 12 months. The bigger platforms have got bigger, and there has been some rationalisation at the bottom end...
Macquarie Portfolio Management has expanded its range of hedge fund investment options, giving retail investors access to a global group of absolute return hedge fund man...
Coin software will now help support three of Australia’s four banking pillars, with ANZ yesterday announcing it had signed a contract with the Macquarie Bank-owned adviso...
Australian investors slow to jump on the global property bandwagon are missing out, according to a new report on the property securities investment sector....
Macquarie has launched a new property fund that will invest in the agricultural sector. However, the fund manager will be buying farms, land and related agricultural buil...
Challenger is launching a global infrastructure fund designed for platforms next month....
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....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...