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Are ETFs really the next smartphones?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
Investment in exchange-traded funds can no longer be "phoned in" especially when the products are viewed as a transcendent technology that will reshape the traditional fund landscape. Using the analogy that smartphones have become less about calling ...

CommInsure, TAL engaged in troubling conduct: Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
In closing the sixth round of the Royal Commission, counsel assisting found that CommInsure, TAL and Rest may have engaged in conduct that fell below community standards after hearing "troubling" evidence from various case studies. CommInsure and Colonial ...

Linear pushes MGP into the red

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... managed accounts business remains a "core strength" despite expansion into new products and services. It's also rolling out wrap and super solutions to meet a growing demand for independent platforms shifting to non-bank aligned business models. ...

Managed accounts forum to address vertical integration, best practice

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... than $50 billion of funds under administration. If it keeps growing at this rate, it will overtake the entire investment wrap sector within five years," said Alex Dunnin, executive director of research and compliance at Rainmaker Information. "The sector ...

Macquarie Wrap adds Vanguard SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
Vanguard's range of diversified managed accounts strategies are now available via Macquarie's Wrap platform. Targeting the growing number of financial advisers adopting managed accounts, Vanguard ETFs will predominantly be used to implement the asset ...

Fiducian continues growth trajectory

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... growth across its salaried and franchisee network. Meanwhile, its funds management arm has grown to $2.37 billion and its wrap platform now holds $1.94 billion in funds. Looking ahead, Fiducian said it is considering a pipeline of growth opportunities ...

OneVue and Mercer join forces

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... advisers within the Nextplan network. The solution - a private label of the OneVue platform - includes a comprehensive super wrap, suite of risk-based pooled investments and an investor-directed portfolio service with 12 custom-built managed account ...

AMP wealth arm leaked $873 million in first half

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... MySuper transitions, the group said. North platform The biggest inflows for AMP's wealth management business came from its wrap platform North which bought in $2.5 billion of net inflows in the first half. However, when compared to H1 2017, North's inflows ...

Former NULIS chair faces Royal Commission

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
The former chair of NAB's superannuation entities has denied MLC tried to bill other services in order to claim advice fees. Nicole Smith was the NULIS Nominees chair from 2013 to 2018, and she faced the Royal Commission this afternoon as it resumed ...

NULIS names new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... Promnitz first joined the board responsible for the MLC Super Fund and products such as Plum, MasterKey Super, MasterKey and Wrap as a non-executive director in December 2017. He is also a member of the MasterKey and Plum investment committee, the risk ...