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IRESS upgrades service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2008
... alternative income streams such as mortgage broking and the ability to create a statement of advice across all investment platforms faster. The firm's next update, version 130, includes a mortgage comparative tool which allows financial planners to analyse ...

Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... financial advisers. He said one of the reasons behind the lacklustre of support for ETFs is because overall, institutional platforms are not well equipped to provide direct share trading. But not everyone is shying away from the sector. Rick Di Cristoforo ...

Perpetual and BT large cap five star; S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... company restructure in June where it divided its business into four divisions; Australian shares, structured products and platforms, global shares and multi sector. Each division includes its own sales team with the adviser distribution team, managed ...

The nub of being a hub

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... behalf of offshore investors. This is because of the world-leading innovations that have started from Australia such as platforms and wraps, and infrastructure investing. "Things that we take for granted but are years ahead of what's happening overseas," ...

Top platforms give Basis investors helping hand

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
Seven of the industry's leading wealth management providers have teamed up to establish a good will fund for embattled Basis Capital investors. The IFSA Basis Capital Working Group, made up of Asgard, BT Financial Group, Synergy Capital Management ...

Ashton in talks with BT and Macquarie

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... Performance Fund by 1 September. To start the ball rolling, Raphaely confirmed that Ashton is in talks with dealer groups and platforms, including BT and Macquarie, to maximise the funds' exposure to the sector. "We're not yet on the platforms, but we've ...

New era in fee disclosure

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... which 'automates' compliance of the principles. For those who use the platform but also recommend products on other platforms, the group has sent them 'sample letters' to send to those clients. "We did think long and hard about this, specially in our ...

AXA super tops league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... performers and 11 per cent ahead of the -7.3 per cent market average. Paying dividends this year for the AXA employer platforms, which manage collectively approximately $1.7 billion, was their Guaranteed Plus default options which are three-quarters ...

BGI targets adviser iShare apathy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... supporting advisers and we will focus more energy in the second half on getting to advisers," he said. He said institutional platforms, overall, are not well equipped to provide direct share trading, which could go someway to explaining the lacklustre ...

Social banking on the rise

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Social banking platforms will capture 10 per cent of the worldwide retail lending and financial planning market in two years time, according to Gartner. The term, social banking includes trends such as green practices, social entrepreneurship and peer ...