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Firetrail to launch $305m IPO

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2018
The boutique launched by former Macquarie stock pickers under Pinnacle's banner in May is set to kick off an initial public offer, raising up to $304.5 million for an absolute return LIC. Firetrail Investments lodged a prospectus with ASIC on Tuesday ...

How much your advice business will be worth in 2023

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
What multiple will financial advice businesses sell at five years from now, and could implementing managed accounts boost their acquisition value? That's a question that Managed Accounts Holdings head of distribution and marketing Tony Nejasmic sparked ...

Advisers warming up to LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2018
Adviser participation in the IPOs of listed investment companies has jumped by nearly 30% since July last year, according to a leading IPO specialist. SeedPartnerships director Chris Clayton says until last year about 80% of LIC floats were taken up ...

Managed accounts could outstrip super sector on CIPRs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
New retirement income products from the financial advice space could arrive sooner than those from superannuation funds but there is still a long wait for both, according to State Street Global Australia. In its May budget, the Federal Government said ...

ETFs increasingly used to trade risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
Institutional investors are increasingly turning to exchange-traded funds in times of volatility, using them as a price discovery tool and to trade risk. Speaking at the Financial Standard Best Practice ETF Forum in Sydney yesterday, BlackRock Investment ...

ETF market growth a benefit for all

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2018
A network effect is underway in the Australian ETF market, and as growth continues, all investors are set to benefit. Presenting a snapshot of the Australian ETF industry at the Financial Standard Best Practice ETF Forum in Sydney today, Rainmaker head ...

Managed accounts forum to address vertical integration, best practice

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
Leading managed account providers and financial planning groups will take centre stage at the annual Financial Standard Managed Accounts Forum to be held in Melbourne next month. More than 160 financial advisers and managed account specialists have ...

Financial abuse: A hidden epidemic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Commonwealth Bank is extending its domestic and family violence support program due to customer need, with its helpline receiving about 90,000 calls in the first month. Initially launched as a 12-month pilot in November 2017, the CBA Domestic and Family ...

Managed Accounts Forum survey open

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
Rainmaker research says the managed accounts market is growing three-times the rate of the regular platform market. In the lead up to the Best Practice Forum on Managed Accounts, Financial Standard is running a survey to further this industry insight. ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Who better to talk about trade than the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In its latest report the WTO put into perspective the goings-on in the on-going global war on trade. To wit: "A total of 39 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies ...