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SDI products drive retail FUM growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
Newer styles of products aimed at self-directed investors (SDI) may account for a small share of the retail investment market but they represent a much larger share of market growth. These product styles include managed accounts and their separately ...

Small data beats big data

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
Despite 90% of financial services professionals seeing big data as a priority for their business, very few understand how to use it, according to Mercer consumer marketing leader Cambell Holt. Speaking at the Financial Standard Marketing, Advertising ...

Marketing could double financial services revenue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
Financial services companies with integrated sales and marketing teams can nearly double their chances of growing revenue, according to Peter Strohkorb Consulting International chief executive Peter Strohkorb. Speaking at the Financial Standard Marketing ...

Remuneration has no bearing on advice quality

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
The head of Bombora Advice, which has just acquired two new financial advice practices, has defended commission based remuneration structures for risk advisers. Commenting on the recent inquiries into commission-based remuneration structures in the ...

Henderson acquires IOOF's Perennial

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
Henderson Group has acquired fund manager Perennial Fixed interest Partners and Perennial Growth from IOOF and has increased its stake in a third investment firm. UK-based Henderson has bought all the shares of Perennial Fixed interest Partners and ...

Market to open higher after Wall Street record high

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street hit another record high. At 0700 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 19 points at 5,685. Strong earnings from Best Buy and news that CVS Health would acquire ...

QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
QIC has formed a $1 billion Asia-Pacific infrastructure partnership with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the United States. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Mums and dads have increasingly chosen to invest their superannuation in direct low-fee retail products over the last 12 months. Particularly so at BT Super for Life and ANZ Smart Choice with both recording funds under management growth of more than ...

ISA and AIST want changes to professionalism model

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
Both Industry Super Australia (ISA) and the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) have recommended modifications to a proposed model on lifting educational, professional and ethical standards in the financial services industry. In their ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has given his backing to small business tax cuts made in the budget but has branded the so-called crack-down on multi-nationals "a cop out". "We welcome the small business package," he told the ABC's Leigh Sales. "We support ...