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Instreet appoints Brant to its board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... increasingly abandoned by investment banks. In October, the group launched a geared Aussie equity product tailored for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) and retail investors.

Shorten unveils advisory panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Bill Shorten, the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, has unveiled a new financial advisory panel to help with the Government's Future of Financial Advice reforms. "The Panel will play a key role in lifting the level of professional ...

BGL partners with COIN on SMSFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
BGL Corporate Solutions (BGL) and COIN has signed a deal to provide software services to financial advisers with SMSF clients. The new partnership will allow advisers to import client data through COIN's software, for integration with BGL's Simple Fund ...

Industry fund members switch to SMSFs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
Industry funds are losing members to self-managed super funds, poor investment performance and lacklustre communication, research shows. An Investment Trends survey of 8,500 fund members found that nearly one in four industry fund members (23 per cent) ...

Longevity products in early stages

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
In Asian and US markets, longevity and long-term insurance have found strong support yet in Australia, it is an area that remains relatively underexplored. "Longevity is something that is going to become more apparent, particularly managing longevity ...

BlackRock to expand retail arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... managed funds, SMA and ETFs. "At the moment we offer [SMAs] as ordinary investment monies structure only, so self managed super funds can access it and ordinary investment monies canbut we can't take it in the superannuation environment." "Early next ...

The SMSF debt binge

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
Gearing used by self-managed super funds has doubled over the past two years, largely to fund purchases of property, a new study has found. And the debt binge looks set to continue with another 40 per cent of SMSFs ready to embrace gearing over the ...

SelectingSuper celebrates top 2010 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... the Year - Premium Choice award recipient. In the self-managed superannuation sector, Cavendish was named the Self-Managed Super Fund Provider of the Year. "We're here to celebrate what's good about our industry," said Christopher Page, managing director ...

MLC to launch platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... capabilities and Separately Managed Accounts with MasterKey Custom's portfolio management tools and fully-integrated self managed super offer. "MLC Wrap will support advisers to run efficient businesses and enable them to access a broad range of investment ...

Get on board super reforms: Shorten

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... politics out of super... The Monty Python factions of industry funds versus retail, accountants versus planners, self managed super funds versus the world... the bickering, the industry navel gazing and insularity," he said. Instead, the industry should ...