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Adviser moves show industry upheaval

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... Partners. One went to Australian Unity Personal Finance, one to Industry Fund Services and one to VicSuper. Another AFSL, Smart Solutions, showed 18 advisers registered in July but had ceased by October. Equipsuper went from four aligned advisers to ...

Code monitoring move disappoints industry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Assistant Minister Jane Hume announced the government will accelerate its implementation of the Royal Commission's recommendation to establish a single disciplinary body for financial advisers. The move has disappointed ...

Technology coming for advice jobs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
Rice Warner says technology is likely to forever alter how people expect to receive and pay for retirement advice. New insights from the research house suggest robo-advice is not the only channel through which the advice industry will be changed by ...

Whitehelm launches infrastructure fund locally

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2019
... retail investors." Late last year, the investment manager partnered with a Dutch pension fund service provider to launch a Smart City Infrastructure Fund with about $400 million in seed funding.

IFM Investors sets significant emissions targets

KRISTI CHENG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... alternate power sources, the uptake of electric and low emissions vehicles, LED lighting, rooftop and large scale solar, smart management systems and energy efficient office spaces. CEFC chief executive Ian Learmonth highlighted the enduring nature of ...

Complex retirement system requires simplicity: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... well short of that." It should be simple to understand so that retirees who don't seek financial advice can still make smart choices, she added.

IOOF establishes super trustee office

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
IOOF believes it has actioned all 145 items required to meet licence conditions imposed by APRA late last year, including those which it failed to meet the original deadline for. In an update to the market late yesterday, IOOF said the independent reviewer ...

What is holding Aussie robo advisers back?

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
... options such as ETFs. "Just because a wealth manager has a website and an app doesn't make it a robo adviser [ASIC money smart has a website for example]," Dunnin said. Rainmaker research also found that most robo advisers in Australia were not set ...

NEOS Life partners with insurance tech firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
NEOS Life has partnered with a global software firm to support its underwriting, sales and administration functions. NASDAQ-listed Ebix has deployed several functionalities for the start-up in just nine months. This includes implementing an adviser ...

Praemium FUA skyrockets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
Praemium saw funds under administration hit $16.1 billion over the last financial year, thanks largely to its off-platform managed accounts service. The ASX-listed platform's FUA shot up 108% in FY19 as a result of launching the Virtual Managed ...