PLATFORMS

Financial planning

When Perennial Investment Partners was launched by IOOF as a new boutique funds management arm in 1999, IOOF’s plan was to become a significant player in both retail and ...

Editorial

We are all aware that reduced levels of investment returns will accelerate the rate at which clients are demanding lower overall fees for their managed investments....

Editorial

There is a lot of interest at the moment in Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) - also known as Individually Managed Accounts - and their imminent coming of age....

Financial planning

Merger and acquisition activity among the larger funds management groups has meant many now face the challenges of consolidating assets within multiple platforms into sin...

Financial planning

Colonial First State’s (CFS) flagship master trust, FirstChoice, has reached the $2 billion mark in funds under administration less than nine months after its launch....

Financial planning

It’s been three years since Money Management last profiled the Glenhurst Corporation and in that time much has changed. JOHN WILKINSON reports....

Financial planning

The US based Cerulli Associates research group has reaffirmed its much publicised prediction that Australia’s investment platform marketplace is heading for considerable ...

Financial planning

Count Wealth Accountants has signed with Australian Skandia to make use of the group’s platform which it plans to formally launch in mid February....

Financial planning

Wraps based on the Australian model will replace self-managed accounts in the UK financial services market, a new British report says....

Financial planning

Van Eyk Research and Syscorp have signed a memorandum of understanding to deliver an Individually Managed Account (IMA) to the financial planning market....

Financial planning

Macquarie Funds Management will move to list its wholesale Diversified Treasury Fund on master trust and wrap menus after the fund broke the $1 billion mark for funds und...

Financial planning

The opportunity to take an equity stake is one of the most important features advisers look for when choosing a master trust or wrap. But could it leave the financial pla...

Financial planning

Platforms have long been a key method to access a range of investments and as JASON SPITS reports, rather than being brought down by recent markets, they have continued t...

Financial planning

Financial services education has been a hot topic throughout this year but the issue is about to get even hotter due to a decision made by National Finance Industry Train...

Financial planning

ANYONE who knows anything about the business of financial services knows that master trust and wrap platforms have risen from almost nought a decade ago to become the dom...

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