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Financial planning

The arrival of separate accounts will put further pressure on master trusts to reduce fees. As FIONA MOORE reports, master trusts could learn from separately managed acco...

Financial planning

Carving up the remuneration pie

While master trusts and wraps make administration easier, they have also added another level of fees. JASON SPITS examines who gets what in the platform fee carve up....

Financial planning

Multi-managers set the record straight

There used to be one name for fund managers who pooled money to invest with a range of fund managers. So what happened? FIONA MOORE reports on the rise of the multi-manag...

Financial planning

Extracting real value from badging

The flip side of administration platform fees is the value that master trusts can help generate for a financial planning business. Tynan Mackenzie chief executive officer...

Financial planning

Where do the costs go?

It is no secret that master funds and other forms of reporting technology require constant up keep. And, it seems a never ending string of payments....

Financial planning

Hard times refuse to roll around

Master trust and wrap providers may be less concerned about fees than they are making out. GEORGE LIONDIS digs deep into the latest fee data....

Financial planning

When will our focus shift from fees?

THE ASCENSION of the administration platform has been taking place for more than a decade, making it hard for planners to remember when they did not use one....

Funds management

Banks and fund managers pair up

The funds management and banking sectors have been in an acquisition frenzy during the past two years, fulfilling the industry prophecy of rationalisation. FIONA MOORE ta...

Financial planning

Integratec to provide training on IDT software

Financial planning software provider Investment Data Technologies (IDT) is to outsource the training for its software platform to independent training organisation Integr...

Financial planning

MLC gears up for $200m spend

MLC has dedicated 150 of its staff to formulate the design of a project to utilise the $200 million committed to the group’s wealth management operations by National Aust...

Financial planning

Businesses must update for future survival

HISTORY does not repeat itself. Business cycles, market trends and business opportunities, if missed 10 years ago, do not represent themselves for a second bite of the ch...

Financial planning

5Di rolls out own funds

Specialist investment research group 5Di will expand its operations and move into supplying its own manage the manager (MTM) style investment funds....

Financial planning

S&P forges ahead with fund research

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is preparing to launch a ratings system for managed funds in a move that will bolster its already considerable push into the Australian funds mana...

Financial planning

Platforms are not the future for planners

The key to future financial planning groups will be selling the relationship, not what platforms the dealer group is using, says Strategic Consulting and Training managin...

Financial planning

InvestmentLink launches transaction service

InvestmentLink has expanded its services with the roll out of its transaction processing service for retail managed funds, only one day after the Australian Stock Exchang...