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Powerwrap's platform offers advisers full choice

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
Powerwrap Limited has upgraded its SMARTwrap platform as part of its overall business strategy to offer independent financial advisers full choice at what they regard as a reasonable price. The SMARTwrap Investment Account now offers access to over ...

Wealthtrac revises structure for independent market

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
Independent platform provider Wealthtrac has updated their pricing for advisers to address the fee-for-service environment, including lowering the administration fee cap. Wealthtrac managing director and chief executive Matthew Johnson said the move ...

ClearView positive about CCP takeover offer

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
The board of ClearView Wealth has entered into an implementation agreement with CCP BidCo after it made an increased takeover offer of five cents extra per share, following a rejection of its initial offer some three weeks ago. CCP BidCo, an entity ...

Principal Global gets $150m QFII quota

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
Global asset manager Principal Global Investors has been approved for a $150m Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) quota to be invested directly in China's A-share markets. The quota approval from the Chinese State Administration of Foreign ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market is set to open slightly lower as investors remain timid ahead of a highly anticipated speech from US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke at the end of the week. World markets were mixed overnight, posting either slight ...

We're not obsolete: Brokers defend their patch

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
Despite a flurry of recent mergers, courtesy of reduced appetite for equities, regulatory changes and market volatility, the role of Australian stock brokers is far from obsolete. That's the view of Andrew Coppin, managing director of listed broking ...

Embedding risk appetite remains tricky

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
Despite a major improvement in financial services firms implementing risk management since the GFC, there remains significant unfinished business, according to a new Progress in Financial Services Risk Management report. While there's been significant ...

Fidelity calls rising tide for equities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Having been bearish on equities for the past 18 months, there is growing evidence for cautious optimism on the part of equity investors. Equities have been pushed down by fears of a European crisis, however equity markets have "switched out of panic ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
In my book last week has gotta be one of the boring-est weeks of 2012. But with most equity markets ending on the plus side, boring is good enough for me. Reports that the US economy created 163,000 jobs in July - better than the 100K expected - sent ...

All advice scaled in proposed ASIC guidance

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
All advice is considered scaled to some extent, according to ASIC's consultation paper released yesterday on key elements of the FOFA reform package. The proposed guidance on scaled advice and best interests duty indicates the two categories of scaled ...