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OneVue continues to target medical profession

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
OneVue has launched a second intermediated platform targeted at SMSF investors, specifically in the medical professional space. Designed for members of MAP - a financial services group that caters predominately to medical professionals, capabilities ...

ETFs have proved their worth in crisis: iShares

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... asset - in fact it represented the only way to trade investment grade corporate exposure." iShares, while targeting SMSF investors also spoke of the benefit ETFs represent to institutional investors, in a return to the products' original target at the ...

Aus fixed income ETF providers talk up offerings

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... ETFs has recently launched a range of fixed income indices with the ASX. Russell Investments will be targeting SMSF investors with ETFs that track a lesser-known index, taking on the additional requirements of publishing the index holding to market every ...

AIA partners with AGI

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... Felsch, principal at AGI. Granting access to wholesale rates for comprehensive insurance has the potential to save SMSF investors up to 25% on standard death, total and permanent disability and income protection cover, according to AIA. The new plan ...

Managed funds have a place in SMSFs: Select

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... Despite $113 billion in cash in the SMSF structure as at May 2011 and excess cash of $39 billion, only one in eight SMSF investors have plans to put money in managed funds, according to McCormick. "To invest that extra cash, you need confidence in markets ...

New Count chief talks products

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... will be a product that gives access to all different kinds of products and does it well at a good price point for SMSF investors. Having access to Count accountants base clearly helps us to better understand where this demand is, although there is a ...

Macquarie breathes new Life into insurance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2011
... improvements to its underwriting and claims process. Macquarie Life FutureWise, a retail offering available to SMSF investors, has been merged with Super Protector, which was launched in 2005. As a result, advisers will find it easier to structure risk ...

Investors gearing up again

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... for that," he said. Westpac is waiting for ATO clearance before launching new products that will be targeted at SMSF investors before the end of the financial year. In February this year it launched a series of self funding instalments (SFIs) that promote ...

Australians willing to pay just $300 for advice

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... expected to pay lower fees for advice, and 25 per cent were reluctant to pay for advice at all. Around one in 10 SMSF investors stopped using an adviser in the last 12 months due to poor outcomes, noted the report.

Charter Hall to launch industrial property fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... from the seed funding provided by the parent group, said Stacker. He predicts that the new fund would appeal to SMSF investors, just as one of the fund's sister product, backed by 1 Martin Place in Sydney, was as much as 80 per cent owned by SMSFs. "SMSFs ...