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OneVue adds Perpetual first SMA to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
OneVue has added the Perpetual Investments separately managed account (SMA) as an investment option on its unified managed account (UMA) platform. Perpetual has launched its first SMA in response to increasing adviser demand for model portfolio solutions. ...

Retraction: Walther resigns from PIS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
Peter Walther has resigned from his position as chief executive of Professional Investment Services (PIS), according to a company statement. John de Zwart, managing director and chief executive officer at parent company Centrepoint Alliance, has been ...

ETFs boom on SMA model portfolios

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
Exchange-traded fund (ETF) holdings on OneVue's unified managed account (UMA) platform have tripled in the last nine months, new data shows, and migration to model portfolios highlights greater investor sophistication. The spike on OneVue's platform ...

Financial advisers recognised for social media strategy

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
Financial adviser Charles Badenach from Shadforth Financial Group won this year's Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence (SMILEYS) Scholarship, at an award ceremony yesterday. Other awards winners included Aaron Zelman who ...

Financial Standard names FS Smileys finalists

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
The 2012 finalists of the Financial Standard Social Media Influence, Leadership + Excellence Scholarship (or "the Smileys"), sponsored by Zurich, were announced today ahead of the awarding of the Scholarship in Melbourne next week. The 12 finalists ...

Asset consultants still in demand

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
Consolidation within the superannuation industry hasn't diminished the demand for asset consultancy services, according to Mercer. Evolutions in the superannuation sector have meant that Mercer has diversified, and improved its capabilities, but it ...

Allianz wins top insurance award

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Allianz has won the award for Life Insurance Product of the Year at the 2012 Australian Banking and Finance (AB+F) Awards. The awards, held on Thursday at The IVY in Sydney, are Australia's premier insurance accolades with the winners chosen by an independent ...

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... came out yesterday. Although reports that Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, is plans to build a spaceship headed for Mars (amid slowing growth in his country) is interesting news too, it isn't that - but something closer to earth. It's news that's ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... the big mining construction projects.'' So what do we do now? Take all our investments out of planet earth and send it to Mars? For I know of only one "downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008" ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
Australian shares are set to fall as world markets dropped ahead of a crucial meeting of European leaders. At 0820 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index futures contract was 67 points lower, or 1.56 per cent, at 4,216. There is no economic ...