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Retail super offerings in successor fund transfer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... was first flagged by OneVue's executive general manager, superannuation administration Stephen Blood when speaking to Financial Standard in June. According to Rainmaker data, MAP has about 3500 members and just shy of $400 million in funds under management ...

CountPlus adds to board, acquires member firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
... officer of software firm Faethm AI, and prior to that worked in executive roles at St.George, Macquarie Bank, KPMG and BT Financial Group. She also served as the chief executive of Decimal for over a year. CountPlus chief executive Matthew Rowe said ...

Advisers shift to ETFs from active managers: VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... (ETFs) over concerns about the cost and performance of actively managed funds, according to VanEck. VanEck's fifth annual smart beta survey revealed 87% of advisers use ETFs in client portfolios, up from 83% in 2016. Additionally, almost half of ...

Link suffers in COVID environment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... leverage in this division. Link Group also entered the UK pension market in FY20 through its strategic partnership with Smart Pension. As at 30 June 2020, Link said it administers around 700,000 members in the UK and can see continued future growth in ...

VanEck to launch four new ETFs

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... interactive entertainment and the fragmentation of the digital media landscape." Similarly, VanEck's HLTH will be the only smart beta healthcare ETF listed on the ASX. HLTH will invest in 50 fundamentally sound and attractive value companies in the global ...

Industry veterans launch dealer group

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... with digital Fact Finds and my Dealer Services for the day to day running of the dealer group. It has also partnered with SMART Compliance, the brainchild of former Australian Securities Commission investigator Brett Walker (who also sits on the dealer ...

Praemium shows growth in crisis

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... it posted a net profit after tax of $4.9 million which was a 91% increase from FY19. "Praemium has reported improve financial results despite a number of challenges across the 2020 financial year," it said. "These include a global market downturn following ...

Super fees hit record lows: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
Fees across all super fund types dropped to record lows last financial year, according to a recent study conducted by Rainmaker. The key finding of a review of 2720 products offered by 169 super funds, super fees came in at a total of $29.6 billion ...

Class announces $4.2m acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... 2003, operating a platform that has delivered over 500,000 documents to accounting, professional services firms and financial advice networks. Class chief executive Andrew Russell said the acquisition will complement Class' NowInfinity business and help ...

Netwealth launches Milliman managed accounts

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020
... said when SmartShield was designed; they could not have foreseen that its launch would coincide with the pandemic. "Financial advisers were already facing a raft of challenges, as the industry undergoes significant adjustments and regulatory requirements ...