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HUB24 doubled FUA in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... introduced to the platform over the past 18 months, including Paragem. The platform also completed the transfer of a self-directed investor book of $28 million in FUA in July. HUB24 recently signed an agreement with a large independent licensee and will ...

SMSFs to access Berkshire Hathaway from Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... Hathaway," MDS executive director Marcel Collignon said. "We are finding that there is strong demand from both SMSF and self-directed investors for products such as this." Sequoia Specialist Investments has offered a number of other structured products ...

Why SMSFs are attractive to Gen X and Gen Y

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... environment. "We can debate about why people join a self-managed superannuation fund, and why people want to be self-directed. It is a big conundrum. They want to do it themselves but they want someone else to do it for them, which is what the industry ...

Super funds battle with customer interfaces

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... with no grouping anywhere. It might be the same message, but it will be a message to one person on their best action directed through their preferred communication channel. We are a single service business - a superannuation fund - and are not trying ...

Hedge fund returns down 10% in 2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... investors in 2014 accessed hedge funds through the retail direct channel and 49% through retail indirect through an investor directed portfolio service. The largest net exposure for hedge funds was to listed equities (approximately $26.3 billion), with ...

Less than a fifth of SMSFs under advice

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... 38% had also made a "substantial shift" in their SMSF's asset allocation during that period. AMP Capital head of self-directed wealth and SMSF Tim Keegan argued this represents a major opportunity for financial advisers, noting how many SMSFs are currently ...

SDI products drive retail FUM growth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
Newer styles of products aimed at self-directed investors (SDI) may account for a small share of the retail investment market but they represent a much larger share of market growth. These product styles include managed accounts and their separately ...

Expert issues cyber-attack warning

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... at risk from fraudsters. Private banks have reported carefully planned social engineering and manipulation scams being directed at their staff and customers. "The values of transactions in this group are typically much higher than an average retail bank ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... example of the "terrible state" of the country's roads and airports. He argued they'd been neglected while governments directed funding towards more "politically palatable" sectors. "That infrastructure was built 60 years ago and money hasn't been spent ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... was showing appetite for investing with partners in our region - a quarter of all offshore investment from Europe is directed to the Asia-Pacific. Underscoring the opportunity for local fund managers, Latin American allocation to Australia is today less ...