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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 ...

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

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... Stanley argued that the rapid growth of self-managed super funds has delayed the take-up of managed accounts. Now that the SMSF sector is more mature, it will fuel the demand for tax-optimised, transparent and tailor-made investment porfolios. And that ...

Parliament goes to war on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... deduction measures would prevent 800,000 contractors, and non-unionised workers, getting the same deductions as everybody else." SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said Labor's suggested policy is a shift in the wrong direction for our ...

ASIC cancels 133 SMSF auditor registrations

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... auditors who failed to lodge their annual statements. The cancellation follows a final warning issued on 28 July to 185 approved SMSF auditors which had outstanding annual statements. ASIC said it had alerted auditors on a number of occasions that their ...

Local hedge funds fighting for insto attention

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... are attracting increasing non-institutional flows due to "the demand for platform- friendly products from investors in the SMSF, adviser driven and pure retail space." Ivey also announced the 2016 finalists for the Hedge Fund Awards. While Australian ...

Financial services stalwart backs robo-adviser

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... majority rather than the few," Lambert said. "Investors are in desperate need of a low cost accumulation and advice vehicle for SMSF and non-super advice. Ignition Wealth is such a vehicle. Substantially improved efficiency, along with more direct and ...

Class ups its SMSF stake

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
ASX-listed SMSF administration software provider Class recorded 45% revenue growth during the 2016 financial year, increasing its estimated share of the SMSF market to about 19.2%. Class' net profit after tax was $5.2 million, up 53%. This would have ...

Schroders joins exchange-quoted managed fund game

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... strategy via an exchange-quoted managed fund structure reflected the growing desire of many retail investors, and specifically SMSF investors, to improve portfolio diversification and boost returns - but through a preferred quoted format. "GROW has been ...

PSK completes acquisition of Sydney firm

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
... to, including taxation and corporate advisory services, property advisory and management services along with an experienced SMSF team. Importantly for me, our whole staff of 9 will be coming across and joining the PSK group which will open a wide range ...

SMSF trustees increasing use of planners

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2016
SMSF trustees are trending upwards in their use of financial planners for the first time since 2007 according to new research jointly released by Vanguard and Investment Trends. The firms' annual self-managed superannuation fund report, which collated ...