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Funds management

Real Estate Capital Partners has relaunched the property securities fund formerly known as the Trafalgar Enhanced Income Fund, with a goal to grow the offering from its c...

Financial planning

The Mariner Wholesale Mortgage Trust is now available through Asgard Wealth Solution’s highly acclaimed master trust and e-wrap platforms....

Financial planning

Asgard Wealth Solutions and Macquarie have come out on top in this year’s Assirt/Wealth Insights Service Level Survey, voted by financial planners as being the best platf...

People & Products

BNP Paribas Security Services has been appointed to provide unit pricing and custody services to Zurich Australia’s i.super and Finium corporate superannuation platforms....

Financial planning

Colonial First State has stolen a march with its flagship FirstChoice platform, with the latest Assirt/Wealth Insights Service Level Survey revealing that it is being use...

Financial planning

Mercer Global Investments (MGI) has launched an income fund that represents its first product purely aimed at retail investors....

Superannuation

Financial planners have shown an increasing willingness to provide administration services for self-managed superannuation funds in response to rule changes regarding sup...

Financial planning

Despite the requirement by the FPA that their members fully comply with the ‘soft dollar code’ by January 1, 2005, benefit arrangements employed by advisory dealer groups...

Financial planning

While financial planning software hardly sounds like an area you would expect to find participants slugging it out, that’s exactly what is happening. It’s proving to be a...

Financial planning

Putnam Investments has launched two Australian resident managed investment schemes as part of its strategy to grow its Australian business....

Financial planning

Portfolio administration provider Praemium has announced it will enter into the development effort for a set of standards that was jointly released last week by Coin and ...

Financial planning

The underlying structure of some platform products could impede the broad objective of the FPA’s conflict of interest principles which require advisers to stipulate what ...

Financial planning

AMP expects the focus of financial advice to shift as a result of the proposed changes to superannuation announced in this year’s Federal Budget, but has rejected suggest...

Funds management

Pentacle Property Funds Management has released two unlisted direct property fund of funds with unique features to address the liquidity concerns associated with the asse...

Financial planning

ASIC is currently examining whether further regulation is specifically needed for platforms, although at present it is unclear whether they should be defined as a product...

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