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Managed accounts hit milestone

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2019
... Group, Commonwealth Financial Planning, NAB and SMSF Advisers Network are the five largest advice licensees. IOOF is the fastest growing group among the big six - increasing its adviser footprint by 14% in the year to March, reflecting its ANZ acquis ...

BT Panorama boosts functionality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... advisers also increased by 48% during the period and customer account numbers were boosted by 78%. That makes BT Panorama the fastest growing retail platform in the last 12 months to March, with BT overall remaining the number one retail platform provider ...

ASIC FAR, advice industry contract

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... demonstrates the increasingly fragmented nature of Australia's financial advice landscape; smaller groups are the fastest growing while bigger groups contract or exit wealth entirely. For example, AMP and its associated advice groups shed more than ...

Sunsuper chief executive departs

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... transformed Sunsuper's scale and capability and steered the organisation through an intense period of growth to become the fastest-growing top-10 superannuation fund in Australia," he said. Hartley stepped into the role in late 2013, when Sunsuper ...

Chief economist update: ECB exit proves premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... year to the March 2019 quarter after peaking at 2.8% in the September 2017 quarter. While HICP inflation jumped to its fastest rate in five months to 1.7% in April, it's down from the 2.3% rate recorded in October last year and had been below the ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... turn, encourages greater consumption. Meanwhile, personal spending jumped by 0.9% in the month of March which was the fastest monthly rate of increase since nine and half years (August 2009). Sure, there are signs of slowing. Both the ISM manufacturing ...

BetaShares launches new ETF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
BetaShares announced it will launch a new ETF to give investors access to companies in one of the fastest growing economies in the world via the ASX. The BetaShares India Quality ETF will invest directly in a diversified portfolio of high quality Indian ...

Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... accelerated to 8.7% in the year to March from 8.2% in the previous month - above market expectations for a 8.4% gain and the fastest rate since September 2018. Annual growth in industrial production sped up to 8.5% in March - the biggest increase since ...

Female fintechs make better investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... way in fostering a more diverse eco-system - the will is definitely there. We know women-led businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments of entrepreneurship and all sides of the eco-system, from incubators to investors, have a role to play in ...

Chief economist update: Not spring yet in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... tobacco - jumped to 1.2% from 0.8% in the year the March. This is higher than expectations for acceleration to 1% and the fastest rate in six months. One swallow does not a spring make but two swallows? These would certainly give the European Central ...