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Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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,...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

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...

Financial planning

Master trust fee levels will ultimately be determined by investors, through innovations such as Colonial’s FirstChoice master trust. KATE KACHOR reports....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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