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Stockspot preps new tool for partners

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
Stockspot has developed a partnership programme for advisers, accountants and other professionals to be launched later this year. The tool will enable selected financial professionals to team up with the automated investment adviser to manage client's ...

EGFM launches new property fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
EG Funds Management has launched a new close-ended, unlisted real estate fund. Yield Plus Infrastructure Fund No. 2 (YPI 2) raised just under $400 million in equity at first close with both domestic and offshore institutional investors. The fund manager ...

Younger Australians taking up SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
Three quarters of new SMSF members are aged below 55 and yield an average age of 46 years according to the latest industry research from Rainmaker. The data presents a strategic shift in the sector where most SMSFs are being established by younger people ...

Class partners with new fintech

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
Software provider Class has partnered with a new fintech firm which provides managed account and direct client portfolio services to financial advisers. The developer of Class Super and Class Portfolio has teamed up with MA Operator to enable Class ...

Macquarie cops fine over van Eyk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
Macquarie Group has been fined by ASIC following its admission to the mismanagement of the van Eyk Blueprint International Shares Fund (VBI Fund). On Tuesday, the NSW Supreme Court ordered Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) to pay $400,000 to the ...

Managed accounts to disrupt fund businesses to the tune of $60bn

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
The managed accounts industry is tipped to hit $60 billion by 2020, heavily disrupting traditional asset manager business models and driving the growth of financial advice groups, according to Morgan Stanley Research. In an extensive 75-page broker ...

Parliament goes to war on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
Superannuation policy is headlined as one of the federal government's first tests when parliament resumes next week, following opposition plans to amend some of the biggest changes to super in a decade. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wants the $500,000 ...

Sentry Group slams LICG's "opportunistic attack"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Sentry Group chief executive and chair Murray Hills has criticised the Life Insurance Consumer Group's "attack" on the Association of Financial Advisers in an open letter. Directed to the financial services industry, the letter admitted that Sentry ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
Markit flash US manufacturing PMI Markit Economics' flash US manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) eased to a reading of 52.1 in August from July's nine-month high level of 52.9 on the back of continued solid strength in production. While the ...

Retiree expenditure remains modest: study

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
A new study of retiree expenditure answers some myths and fears about what retirees need to live on and will help shape future superannuation policy. Research commissioned by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) and conducted by ...