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Most accountants still unready for advice

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... Bstar chief executive Grant Bloxham commented that "competition for compliance fees is becoming more cutthroat, with aggressive discounting being used to retain clients. Practices are now valuing clients based on their lifetime value to the practice. ...

Half of financial services to divest: EY

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... concerns in the last year, the survey found. Hammes said 2016 will see the continued pressure to fuel growth and bold and aggressive activist investors who quickly look to divestments for value will not go away. "With limited time and resources, corporates ...

Younger clients best-served by robo-advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... clients set up was simple. "We start with a questionnaire that suggests a risk profile, from highly conservative to aggressive, and then put them in a portfolio of four-to-six global exchange-traded funds based on their initial investment." Sub-$25,000 ...

Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... little tax being paid on significant profits generated in Australia. "Some of these foreign owned companies are overly aggressive in the way they structure their operations. We will continue to challenge the more aggressive arrangements to show that ...

Nikko returns global equities to overweight stance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Nikko Asset Management's global investment committee (GIC) has lifted its stance on global equities to moderately overweight from neutral, citing healthy economic growth prospects in the United States. The Tokyo-based company's investment committee ...

New mobile broking platform launched in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Capital market technology firm, Dion Global, has launched its mobile trading platform in Australia. Through an adviser desktop, tablet and mobile platform, the trading suite integrates with portfolio and back office systems providing CRM "productivity ...

BetaShares launches managed Aussie equities ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
BetaShares has launched a managed risk Australian equities exchange-traded fund (ETF). The Managed Risk Australian Share Fund (ASX: "AUST") invests a passively-managed selection of Australian shares (broadly similar to the ASX 200) while employing an ...

Multi-sector investments reach $555 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... trusts, followed by pensions (8%) and insurance bonds (0.5%). It said on a Morningstar category basis, multi-sector aggressive and multi-sector growth are where the majority of assets also reside, accounting for 34% and 48% of assets respectively. The ...

Futuro makes five key appointments

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... and client service coordinator. "We believe there is more value to us, as an AFSL, in identifying practices that are aggressive and committed to growing their businesses and then actively supporting that growth rather than simply focusing on practice ...

Nikko downgrades equities stance

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... optimistic on the United States, we do not think it is worthwhile, especially with the recently increased volatility, to be aggressive on global equities overall," said Nikko's chief global strategist John F. Vail, who is also head of the global investment ...