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Bravura circles competitor

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... shareholders will avoid the uncertainty and costs associated with the significant investment to renew GBST's software platforms, including the E-volve program to bring Composer to modern standards and the changes required as part of the ASX CHESS ...

$1.5bn pulled from Pendal

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... advice by September 2019. Within BTFG, Westpac will integrate insurance into the customer division, while private wealth, platforms and investments and superannuation will move into an expanded business arm. The financial adviser-established super segment ...

Banks push to leave vertical integration on the table

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2019
... integration model that allowed them to control the entire wealth stack: funds management, financial advice, superannuation and platforms. In a submission to the inquiry, the ABA said it had significant concerns with the bill, and noted previous inquiries ...

ASIC approves AMP for MDAs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... ASIC's previous no-action position on MDA services, to modified licenses allowing them to deal in MDAs on regulated platforms. That transitionary period expired in 2018 and as such, AMP's advice business was required to seek a variation of its ...

KPMG partner moves to GROW Super

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... overseas, as well as implement the TINA platform, GROW's blockchain-enabled technology for superannuation funds and wealth platforms. Gee was a long-serving executive at KPMG Australia, firstly joining as a director in April 2002. He left 11 years later ...

NZ Super responds to Australian social media laws

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... if their company does not act expeditiously to remove abhorrent violent material. They also state that social media platforms internationally must notify the Australian Federal Police if they become aware of any abhorrent violent material on their platform ...

Consumers don't understand fee disclosure: ISA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... current proposal by ASIC only serves to reinforce the inconsistent and confusing fee disclosure structure - whereby platforms owned by banks and investment managers would only be required to disclose the cost of gaining access to a product, not the cost ...

Managed accounts grow, but education remains low

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... years around definitions of what each of these structures are, and the terminology is interchangeable, and different platforms use different terminology which doesn't do us any favours," Leman said. Blomfield agreed, and said the industry should ...

Alternative platform launches

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... Number (HIN) of end investors to hold investments, rather than the custodial wrap model employed by many Australian platforms. The firm said its new "alternative" offering would offer advisers and clients lower fees, and zero-brokerage. FinClear chair ...

AMP Capital invests in student accommodation

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... standout portfolio in the on-campus PBSA sector in Australia in terms of both scale and quality. However, the broader platforms that Infratil intended to develop using the ANU portfolio as a cornerstone has not eventuated," Morrison and Co executive ...