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Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum 2015 registrations open

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
... Registrations are now open for the Financial Standard Best Practice Managed Accounts Forum 2015, which will be held in Sydney on October 8. The one-day professional learning program is designed to inform advisers and other attendees about how managed ...

PROFILE: AvSuper chief executive Michelle Wade

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... the super journey began Wade graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Applied Communications) from the University of Western Sydney in 1991. Although trained as a journalist and professional writer, she wasn't interested in that career and moved into fashion ...

Colonial First State awards $55m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
A Sydney boutique has won a $55 million mandate from Colonial First State. Eight Investment Partners (8IP) was given the nod to manage a small cap Australian equity portfolio for the wealth management group. The boutique was established in 2009 by Kerry ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... political and policy - what policy? - uncertainty in Australia. A fact highlighted at this week's National Reform Summit in Sydney. We're "sleepwalking into a real mess" is how ex-Treasury head Martin Parkinson put it. RBA Gov Glen wants the government ...

Shaw lands wave of Macquarie advisers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... Mindel, all former Macquarie advisers; Mariz and Mindel will join Shaw's Victorian offices and Wilkinson will be based in Sydney. Finally, the Sydney office has further grown with the appointment of former UBS director and adviser Simon Forbes, who has ...

SMAs ideal for low-touch clients

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... outsourced to the manager of the SMA, as well as responsibility for handling of corporate actions." Presenting the report in Sydney, he added that the desire for professional investment management rose in times of increased market volatility, and that ...

BMR debuts 15-minute SMSF

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... online "15-minute self-managed super fund" service, allowing rapid SMSF establishment. At the launch of the service in Sydney, BMR senior consultant Mark Ratcliff noted that currently the preparation of super fund documents can take up to three days ...

Intra-fund advice can be improved: WSSA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... superannuation members in a system that is currently reactive and lacking penetration. Speaking at the inaugural WSSA conference in Sydney today, Latto suggested a solution to improve intra-fund advice would be facilitating meetings with advisers in ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... the growth of Schroders' new Melbourne offices." He stayed in Melbourne for two years with Schroders before moving up to Sydney for another three. But because by 2011 he was now married with a third child on the way, he decided he wanted to move back ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... over Japan," BNY Mellon managing director in Asia Pacific Simon Cox said during the presentation of the white paper in Sydney. "Japan has had two decades of weak price pressure. Its GDP has been remarkably flat over the next twenty years." However, the ...