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Small funds winning group risk race

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... influence over life insurance policies. This may change soon, however, with new players coming into the life insurance marketplace. Some insurers (such as MetLife and Swiss Re) are entering into partnerships with supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths respectively) ...

Don't rage against the machine

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... said. "Robo advice is not 'digital disruption', it is the proper response to advances in technology and changes in the marketplace." Callinan highlighted how new web based wealth management software services like Wealthfront and Betterment in the US ...

Property bubble debate heats up

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
Public officials' concerns of a property bubble in Sydney and Melbourne are spreading uncertainty amongst those thinking about increasing their exposure, but are not dissuading Chinese investors. Treasury secretary John Fraser was the last public official ...

Barrett firm acquires Pride Advice

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... partner with them and de-risk their succession plan while also helping them grow. "There's been a mentality in the marketplace that you're buying licensees rather than businesses. But my view is that practices should be seen as 'in and of themselves'. ...

PIMCO appoints former Lonsec CEO

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... addition to the Australian senior leadership team and his addition underscores PIMCO's commitment to the Australian marketplace," Stewart said. "We are committed to our clients' unique requirements and delivering innovative investment solutions to help ...

ACCC approves Federations Centres and Novion merger

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... the new combined group to become a major player in Australia's highly concentrated institutional property investment marketplace. Federation Centres and Novion own or co-own a combined 92 shopping centres across Australia and following divestiture of ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... during the GFC, when he set up his independent AFSL, there were about three different PI insurance providers in the marketplace. "Now there's one or two. Nobody wants to be in this space, so there's no competition and year on year the cost of premiums ...

MTAA launches transition to retirement investment option

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... income yielding assets such as infrastructure, property and alternative credit assets. "The product fills a gap in the marketplace, with few superannuation funds currently offering investment options designed to deliver capital stability and manage investment ...

NGS Super tool can help members move to SMSF

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... super fund (SMSF). The SMSF Profiler was developed as a response to the "significant volume of information in the marketplace on SMSFs which is often biased, conflicted or just plain scaremongering," NGS Super chief executive Anthony Rodwell-Ball said. ...

Pinnacle appoints distribution director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... Palisade Investment Partners and the recently launched Antipodes Partners, to engage with the institutional and retail marketplace, both in Australia and offshore. "Hiring Matt is a real coup for Pinnacle. We have known him for more than 10 years and ...