MASTER TRUSTS

Financial planning

Thirty per cent of advisers use a combination of master trusts and retail funds when investing the superannuation savings of their clients, while 21 per cent only recomme...

Financial planning

Australian firm Objectmastery has reached the $500 million mark for funds under advice with its UK-based Transact wrap account....

Financial planning

Colonial First State has completed almost nine months of preparations for its much anticipated new master trust, gearing up to launch the investment platform to its finan...

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research has won the mandate to become the investment and asset consultant to the Strategy Portfolio group’s new suite of investment portfolios, which form part o...

Financial planning

APIR, the Canberra based industry organisation which supplies codes to unit trust products, now has 10,000 active products listed and coded, according to managing directo...

Financial planning

Dealer groups that launch their own master trusts are said to offer their planners even more choice. But, as KATE KACHOR reports, not everyone believes in their long-term...

Financial planning

Wrap accounts are set to replace master trusts as tomorrow’s product. <caps>Fiona Moore</caps> finds out why, and what it means for financial planners....

Financial planning

Master trust funds under administration continue to grow, as financial planners embrace these platforms with increasing enthusiasm. NICOLE SZOLLOS speaks to some of the b...

Financial planning

<i>Money Management</i> hosted an exclusive Master Trust round table discussion, bringing together the views of the research, funds management, master trust and financial...

Financial planning

Superannuation master trusts growth is virtually assured, thanks to the Super Guarantee levy. However, as FIONA MOORE reports, not so definite is who the survivors will b...

Financial planning

The link between advice and implementation should be broken, according to TOM COLLINS, and this means a re-examination of the thorny issues of commissions and disclosure....

Superannuation

If their phenomenal level of growth is anything to go by, non-super master trusts appear destined to become the dominant investment vehicle in Australia. GEORGE LIONDIS r...

Financial planning

Ventura Investment Management, the new funds management arm of dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS), has been given its first taste of credibility with new...

Financial planning

The financial services industry remains inefficient because its success means it does not have to improve. However Tom Collins argues this will spur on the next wave of c...

Financial planning

Australia’s retail managed funds market has overcome the market turmoil and investor insecurity that followed the September 11 terrorist attacks in the US to record posit...

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