Deakin Financial Services Group has amassed a war chest of $6 million, which it plans to use on acquisitions to grow its business in an attempt to compete with much bigge...
Macquarie has joined a limited number of platform providers that are rebating fund manager volume discounts back to clients....
Independent dealer group Count Financial has announced it will scrap an incentive program that rewards its planners for placing funds into preferred platforms, even thoug...
AXA is preparing to boost the property related products it has on offer for advisers with both a domestic and international property fund in the pipeline at the group....
Competition is driving platform fees down and it’s advisers who are feeling the pinch, writes John Wilkinson....
Liam Egan talks to the financial planner wrapping it up for UK advisers....
Recent ‘Point of View’ comments on the future of ‘networks’ by Ray Miles and Paul Brown (MM September 9, August 26) raise some interesting challenges and concerns for ins...
Why did two fund managers with investment cred and strong retail brands feel the need to push into platforms? As Liam Egan found, they were both covering their assets....
Payments received by financial planners for using master trusts and wrap platforms are set to come under increasing scrutiny, with two key industry bodies close to signin...
Even the most technology savvy financial planners are inclined to switch off when the discussion turns to ‘straight through processing’. But that could soon change, write...
So you thought platforms were a steady business? Not on your life. It has been a year of movers and shakers, writes Ross Kelly....
A year is a long time in funds management – and even some of our investment experts were surprised by the way markets, asset classes and investment vehicles gained or wan...
Colonial First State’s FirstChoice master trust has opened a new front in the battle for platform supremacy by signalling its intent to tackle more high end rivals head-o...
AMP Financial Services has re-jigged the investment management line up for its major super and retirement platforms....
Downward pressure on fees in the industry continues with MLC and ING the latest heavyweights to signal better deals for consumers by both announcing a raft of changes to ...
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,...