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ACBC launches additional XTB model portfolios

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
Exchange traded bond provider Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has launched two additional model portfolios. The new Concentrated High-Yield Model Portfolio continues the philosophy of the High Yield Model Portfolio which was launched last month ...

Sequoia launches two specialist retail products

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
Sequoia Financial Group has launched two new structured products for retail investors. The first, Sequoia Accelerated Return Units - Series 1 gives exposure to Tesla Motors, the US electric car and energy storage company; the second, Sequoia Launch ...

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 ...

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 ...

Easton makes $2.75m acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
Easton Investments has acquired a provider of corporate, trust and SMSF documentation for $2.75 million. Panthercorp CST's documentation services are primarily used by accounting businesses for clients looking to incorporate businesses or create trust ...

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
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 ...

ASIC cancels 133 SMSF auditor registrations

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
ASIC has cancelled the registration of 133 approved self-managed superannuation fund 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 ...

Local hedge funds fighting for insto attention

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Local hedge funds are still battling super funds' preference to look offshore for alternatives exposure, according to Hedge Funds Rock and The Australian Hedge Fund Awards co-founder Kim Ivey. Ahead of the awards night in September, Ivey said this is ...