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Regulator clouding wealth management: PractiFI

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
Weaknesses in outsourcing wealth management via cloud technology or shared computing services - as identified by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) - have sparked an impassioned response. On Monday APRA released an information paper ...

Peters MacGregor makes marquee hire

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... Wayne Peters said. Peters MacGregor was established in 1999. It manages concentrated equity portfolios which are distributed via a retail unit trust, an individually managed account service or a separately managed account.

Advice demand up as direct investment grows

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... continue to be among the world's largest share owners, with 36% or 6.48 million Australians owning listed investments personally, via a self-managed super fund (SMSF) or through a company structure. In 2014 there were 540,000 people who only invested ...

Why SMSFs are attractive to Gen X and Gen Y

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... chief executive, Michael Rice, said banks have never targeted their own customers for superannuation and have always sold via their wealth management subsidiaries which have used IFAs. "There has been a disconnect between fund and member. Disruption ...

Challenger enters strategic partnership with Janus

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... Palghat and Nick Maroutsos with Challenger's funding in Australia in 2007. The founders already had a relationship with Gross via PIMCO, and had been looking to further expand their US presence after establishing California offices in 2013. Speaking ...

EOFY means new laws and new products

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... arrangements. Also from today, a new Premium Investor Visa (PIV) requires an investment of $15 million. They are available via an Australian government invite.

CommInsure annuities listed on CFS wrap platforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
CommInsure annuities are now available via the FirstChoice and FirstWrap platforms as the provider aims to bring them to the broader consumer market. The move, which was revealed by Colonial First State in May, allows advisers to combine more than one ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
Risk advisers expressed concern that the industry-led risk reforms package ignores the problem of vertical integration and client-driven policy churn. Synchron director Don Trapnell told Financial Standard that the reform improved on the initial Trowbridge ...

High-risk pursuits may undermine super funds' solvency

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015

Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... million in the GAM Absolute Return Bond Defensive Fund. GAM's unconstrained bond strategy is a "go-anywhere" bond fund which, via the use of derivatives, protects the portfolio and still generates returns during downturns. The strategy is managed by ...