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Outsourcing is the future of compliance

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... managing director Roland Slee. Speaking at a media briefing in Sydney, Slee said that because insurance, superannuation, master trust and investment product business lines are often administrated separately on proprietary in-house platforms, updating ...

Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
Larger superannuation funds appear to have no scale benefit when it comes to getting a good deal on group insurance premiums, the latest study from Rainmaker shows. The Autumn 2015 Rainmaker Superannuation Benchmarking report analysed 15,408 risk options ...

Platform FUM up $660bn

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
The total investment platform market has risen 15.5% to $662.8 billion in the 12 months to March, the latest figures from Plan For Life show. Inflows were slightly down on last year - $145.9 billion versus $149.3 billion in 2014 - while outflows also ...

PROFILE: IOOF managing director Chris Kelaher

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... is to run the whole business from Melbourne, take it from Hobart and into the mainland." To Kelaher, growing the master trust and funds management business was even harder than Citi: "At the time, Citi was not very well known in Australia. But Select ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... individually owned shares. "They are basically the next evolution of trading platform, which share some of the benefits of a master trust yet allow investors to by-pass the managed fund structure and own the portfolio directly in their own name," Green ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

ClearView surpasses 200 adviser milestone after merger

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... included building a new wealth platform, launching WealthFoundations and other costs associated with migrating the master trust products onto a new platform. The merger with Matrix contributed $0.2 million of underlying net profit after tax for the period ...

Providers boost adviser access to managed accounts

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... barriers can also be overcome," Peker said. The report is based on detailed analyst reviews comparing 22 leading master trust and wrap platforms across 466 aspects of their service offerings.

Boutique corporate super realigns following MySuper

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
MySuper may be triggering a readjustment in the corporate platform market as fund groups that have elected not to pursue MySuper authorisation shift their focus away from corporate default products toward select and personal products. The findings are ...

Super returns dip to 9.0 pct

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index fell sharply during September to return 9.0% compared to 11.1% at end July and 10.6% at end June. Three year super fund average annual returns are, however, higher at 11.7% ...