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Platform provider grows SMA menu

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
A platform provider has added two new managers to its separately managed accounts menu, offering advisers and their clients access to a greater range of retail managed accounts. The Netwealth menu now includes SMA portfolios from Elston Asset Management ...

BlackRock snares share of robo-adviser

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
The world's largest fund manager is now a minority shareholder in a German-British robo-adviser as a means of further addressing the needs of clients and end-customers. Now holding a significant minority holding in online asset management company Scalable ...

Global real estate investors too nonchalant: Man GPM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Investors will benefit from focusing on defensive strategies within property portfolios as the overall real estate market may be gearing up for a correction. Man Global Private Markets' co-head of real assets Mikko Syrjanen believes there are too many ...

Fees at the innovation frontline

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
After a round of fee cuts at Vanguard, Platinum Asset Management and K2 Asset Management, it's clear headline fees are currently front-and-centre in funds management - and research argues there may be different ways to tackle the issue. The latest paper ...

Financial advice cannot be a quick-fix: Stackpool

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
Australians are still perplexed by financial advice and its increased accessibility and affordability through technology - and big data isn't helping. Certainty Advice Group believes making financial advice more affordable, accessible and convenient ...

Vamos joins Decimal board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
Digital financial advice software provider Decimal is welcoming former Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia chief executive Pauline Vamos to its board of directors. Vamos joins as a non-executive director, bringing more than 25 years' financial ...

Global infrastructure need deepens profit opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
Chronic underspending in infrastructure and consistent population growth has resulted in a dire need for investment portfolios to fund the provision of essential services to communities. Speaking at a Bennelong adviser event in Sydney last week, 4D ...

Budget undermining super: Labor

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget missed the mark in setting superannuation policies right, proving they cannot be trusted with more than $2.1 trillion in assets, according to the Federal Opposition. Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen and Shadow Revenue and ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
Many Budgets have proven to be good for the country, while others received less than glowing reviews in history books. To take us into the next phase of fiscal policy, one of Australia's most respected and renowned economic commentators, Saul Eslake ...

Treasurer opens the way for increased infrastructure spending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Federal treasurer Scott Morrison is laying the groundwork for a boost in national infrastructure investment after unveiling changes to the way government debt is reported. In his final pre-budget speech, delivered to the Australian Business Economists ...