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Back-office suppliers are gearing up for some busy times ahead as planners seek new ways to cut costs. JOHN WILKINSON looks at how back-office services are re-engineering...

Financial planning

TECHNOLOGY firm Avanteos has enhanced its back-office wealth management software suite with a feature that helps financial planners generate personalised investment strat...

Financial planning

The take-up of individually managed accounts (IMAs) in Australia will not be as great as the US experience, says HSBC Asset Management head of retail Rick Villars, who sa...

Financial planning

MLC HAS entered the ‘show and tell’ phase of its three year $200 million Amazon project designed to build a strategic advice platform and to make MLC a business and outso...

Financial planning

One of the stumbling blocks for the industry in establishing a risk master trust has always been how to get the insurance groups on side. ALLAN BETTS gives an insurance p...

Financial planning

MELBOURNE-BASED financial planner Neville Krynauw cannot understand why the cost of platforms for advisers keeps rising when the technology costs keep falling....

Financial planning

Following his retrospective a month ago, TOM COLLINS looks forward and predicts what changes and trends will emerge over the next four years and the impact they will have...

Financial planning

Job advertisements ask for all the same criteria – loads of planning experience, DFP or CFP qualifications and good communication skills. But what skills and talents are ...

Financial planning

SINCE its merger with St George Bank in 1997, and in particular over the past year, Advance Asset Management has battled to receive market attention of its own....

Financial planning

The growing reliance of financial planners on financial planning software, back office technology and technology driven investment platforms could leave advisers facing d...

Financial planning

Many master trust and wrap platforms will not meet their reporting deadlines to financial planners and their clients for the financial year just passed....

Financial planning

Four years and 50 columns ago, TOM COLLINS first graced the pages of Money Management. Retracing his steps has led him to conclude that not too much has changed....

Financial planning

THE Money Management Technology Report is based on a survey undertaken by The Tom Collins Consultancy and includes providers of technology in the areas of financial plann...

Editorial

It is said that a year is a long time in politics but in the world of technology and software it is close to eternity....

Editorial

Will master trusts and planning software ever merge. John Wilkinson finds opinion is still divided....

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