Macquarie Wrap Solutions has claimed the top place in funds inflows for discretionary master trusts and wraps after recording inflows of $1.2 billion during the March qua...
AM Group, parent company of AM Corporation, has entered the United Kingdom advisory business through a joint venture between AM Financial and independent UK dealer group,...
Colonial First State has questioned the need for a straight through processing service to hit the market, claiming such an offering at this stage would be a case of too l...
Some of Australia’s largest master trust providers are preparing to push the envelope of retail managed fund and share market investing with the addition of separately ma...
Some of Australia’s largest master trust providers are preparing to push the envelope of retail managed fund and share market investing with the addition of separately ma...
With the expectation that master trust fees will come down at some point in the future, master trust providers are turning their attention to marketing campaigns as a way...
Master trust fee levels will ultimately be determined by investors, through innovations such as Colonial’s FirstChoice master trust. KATE KACHOR reports....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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....
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....
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...
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,...