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Managed funds survive ETF growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
The rise of the exchange-traded funds (ETF) industry does not come at the expense of traditional managed funds, a recent Beta Shares and Investment Trends report found. The research showed that 56% of the investors surveyed made incremental investments ...

Frontier and Rogerscasey form research alliance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
Frontier Advisors and Segal Rogerscasey have partnered to establish a Global Investment Research Alliance (GIRA) to share research on investment managers across the globe. The Alliance is expected to expand to a maximum of six members with additional ...

HUB24 announce new sales head

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
HUB24 Investment Platform Business has appointed Wes Gillett as the new head of product and distribution. "Wes brings 25 years industry experience and a wealth of knowledge in the retail and institutional platform distribution space, and we are delighted ...

CommSec appoints head of adviser services

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
Online broker CommSec has appointed former Investment Trends chief operating officer Eric Blewitt to lead CommSec Adviser Services. Prior to Investment Trends, Eric managed Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's leveraged equities margin lending business. "Eric ...

Platforms press on in advice battleground

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The role of platforms in driving planning practice costs down will only get bigger after research shows that despite the growth of self-directed and off-platform investing, the lion's share of assets under advice will remain on-platform. Scott Durbin ...

CFS FirstWrap enhances corporate actions feature

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
Colonial First State (CFS) will be adding new functionality features to its FirstWrap platform in May. The corporate actions capability will be enhanced to allow advisers to automatically handle how their clients respond to announcements such as rights ...

South Africa leads foreign investment in the continent

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
South Africa has received the largest share of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the African continent, with the figure rising more than five-fold from $1.2 billion in 2010 to $6.4 billion in 2012. The figures came from the 'Global Investment Trends ...

CFS FirstWrap regains platform top spot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
The CFS FirstWrap platform has overtaken MLC Wrap and Navigator to reclaim the top spot in Investment Trends' ranking of full-function platforms. FirstWrap topped the functionality table and also ranked first for product offering, transaction capabilities ...

Investor 'fear factor' lowest in 40 months

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Australian investors are less scared then they have been in more than three years, and stock market return expectations are at a 20 month high. Research group Investment Trends today released the findings of its January 2013 Investor Intentions Index ...

Bell Direct ranked top online broker

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Online share trader Bell Direct has again topped the customer satisfaction rankings for online traders, ranking first in 15 out of 16 categories in the Investment Trends Online Broking Report for the second half of 2012. The rankings reflect positive ...