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Macq Wrap releases new accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Macquarie Wrap creates accounts structure free of adviser rebates and commissions that offers a new range of investment, superannuation and pension accounts. The Consolidator Series has a flexible pricing structure that Macquarie said would allow advisers ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
BlackRock Investment Management targets retail superannuation clients with a separately managed account (SMA) product that offers SMSF like features to investors. The investment manager is anticipating flows of around $100 million into the super SMA ...

Advisers fear super fund competition

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... manager of strategy at Colonial First State asked Minister Shorten whether intra-fund advice bundled into the administration fee would be the trail of the future. Minister Shorten responded that intra-fund advice was not of the same depth as that of ...

Planners needle minister over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
Financial Services Minister Bill Shorten fielded prickly questions from financial planners after giving a speech on the Future of Financial Advice reforms at a luncheon gathering yesterday. Minister Shorten told the Financial Planning Association (FPA) ...

Adviser remuneration debate sparks fly

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
The Association of Financial Advice (AFA) hits back at Industry Super Fund research claiming consumers save $82,000 by retirement age by avoiding financial adviser fees. According to the AFA, this research was designed to distract consumers from industry ...

CFS slashes entry bar to wholesale platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
Colonial First State has launched an aggressive bid for market share by opening Australia's biggest wholesale investment platform to small investors, positioning itself for a future commission-free superannuation market. Colonial, a subsidiary of the ...

Super funds call for new fee paradigm

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has renewed calls for alternatives to the existing asset-based and performance-based fee models. The AIST research published last month recommends a hybrid fixed dollar fee/performance fee model ...

Patron signs IOOF Pursuit

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... IOOF's Pursuit platform. Patron chose to renew the deal with IOOF due to the platform provider's transparent administration fee structure, it said in a statement. "Pursuit's pricing structure, in particular the fee cap of $3150 p.a., is a compelling ...

Premium Investors cuts cost, restructures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
A year after Premium Investors underwent a forced off-market buy back, company chair Tom Collins flagged cost savings of more than 40 per cent next year as part of a business restructure. Last Friday, the firm released a newsletter to investors highlighting ...

Investors call planners to charge performance-based fees

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Performance-based fees have traditionally been the domain of fund managers - but research shows a growing number of investors are urging financial planners to start adopting this fee structure. Mark Johnston, principal of research firm Investment Trends ...