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'Product agnostic' netwealth announces record growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013

Paradice debuts fund for retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... Investment Management has launched its first fund for retail investors, which will be offered through Westpac's advice and IFA channels and available through the BT and Asgard Wrap platforms. The Paradice Global Small Mid Cap Fund has appointed Equity ...

Rubik acquires Provisio

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... developed a hosted platform for the provision of scaled advice for both the institutional and independent financial advisor (IFA) markets. With the acquisition, Rubik aims to strengthen its position in the scaled wealth advice technology market and says ...

Fin planners more upbeat over reforms: Zurich

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... life risk market. The insurance provider's index is based on responses from 213 Australian Independent Financial Advisers (IFA), collected during December last year. The results are consistent with further findings from the same survey that approximately ...

SFG appoints head of B2B business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... the wealth management and financial services industry, and joins SFG Australia from AMP where he was director of corporate & IFA distribution for a number of years. Prior to AMP, Powell worked for ING Australia as executive director of sales and marketing ...

Powerwrap's platform offers advisers full choice

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... significant choice to advisers," said Cormac Heffernan, chief executive officer, Powerwrap Limited. To date, Heffernan said that IFA's have basically been told you can either have choice or if you want to have a cheaper one we cut down the platform so ...

Macquarie focuses on independents with Visor

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
Macquarie has renamed its financial planning software for independent advisers Visor, following last week's sale of the COIN business to Rubik. The sale saw the business divided into two software offerings. While Rubik Financial will service the institutional ...

Macquarie to sell COIN

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... existing cash reserves and bank debt. Upon completion of the agreement, Macquarie's financial planning software offering for IFA clients will operate under a new name, to be announced later this year.

UK to ban platform payments

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
Payments to platforms from service providers are set to be banned in the UK by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), triggering reactions that the reforms would shift $30 million in costs directly onto consumers. The proposals are contained in a discussion ...

CommInsure adds to restructured advice team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... advice. Newly appointed head of adviser distribution, Kevin Goss works alongside Sarah-Le Lacheur reporting to Tim Browne on IFA distribution. Bancroft will now report to Sarah-Le Lacheur together with Kylee Ann Shepherd, business development associate ...