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Counting on SMAs with Praemium

Count Financial, the country's third largest network of financial advisers, has signed up with Praemium/MLIM's separately managed account (SMA) platform. While the managed accounts sector is well-established in the US, the local market is yet to embrace ...

Independence pays for Frontier

Frontier Consulting will hire at least five more staff this year after winning the largest superannuation asset consulting contract in the country, with $28 billion State Super, thanks to its 'independent advice' business model. Frontier's managing ...

Fees are going up, but it wasn't meant to be

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
Market pressure due to super choice was meant to drive down fees. But fees are going up. Why? The answer is primarily due to the impact of the ASIC fee template. Yes, it's the government's fault. Not because compliance costs have added to super fund ...

ACT govt goes to super tender

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2006
In potentially one of the biggest ever tenders of its type, the ACT government has gone to market to find a default super fund for its employees. The tender is being driven by the ACT government's need to find a default super fund for its estimated ...

$38bn VFMC bigger and better

The $38 billion Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to become a more powerful financial house after chief executive Syd Bone outlined a series of changes set to come into effect in the next financial year. Based in Melbourne, VFMC is ...

Investors throw money at Praemium listing

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2006
Praemium has announced a premature close to its $18 million capital raising on the back of a very healthy response to its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO is part of Praemium's strategy to grow the business domestically as well as launching into ...

IOOF to merge FP with Winchcombe Carson

IOOF has bought the remaining 75 per cent it previously did not own of Financial Partnership (FP) and plans to merge it with its existing adviser firm Winchcombe Carson (WCFP). The group's general manager in retail funds Jarrod Brown said they have ...

Life insurers and 25 AFSL holders under ASIC microscope

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has launched formal investigations into 25 AFSL holders and will be watching life insurers closely, as a result of its latest license breaches report announced this week. The regulator has ...

Investors strike gold with LinQ

The new wunderkid in resources is Perth-based fund LinQ, which has managed to grow investor money by as much as 500 per cent thanks to astute plays made here and overseas. LinQ started life as Rothschild's resources fund 'Golden Arrow Fund II'. But ...

Babcock & Brown swells infrastructure by $3.4bn

Home grown infrastructure group Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (ASX: BBI) has agreed to buy US utility giant NorthWestern in an all-cash deal worth US$2.23 billion ($3 billion) along with a 51 per cent stake in WestNet Rail for $435 million. The acquisitions ...