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New MLC unit focuses on accountants servicing SMSFs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
MLC has established a new team to focus on establishing the right advice and licensing arrangements for accountants wishing to advise clients on SMSFs. The new unit, called MLC Accountant Solutions was set up in response to the volume of enquiries from ...

Synchron NextGen success firm expands to Sydney

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Synchron's Melbourne-based private wealth management firm, Wealth Enhancers is recruiting for their new Sydney-based boutique office to be headed by former UBS equity trader Wade Tink. Tink, a graduate of Synchron's NextGen program, left UBS to join ...

Move to horizontal integration for wraps

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
The days of the traditional approach to vertical integration by wraps may be numbered, according to online portfolio management provider Sharesight. A reasonable degree of vertical integration has been available for those buying a whole product package ...

UniSuper confirms working group

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
UniSuper has confirmed it will establish a working group to review the defined benefit funding issues raised last year. The announcement follows a meeting held last Thursday between the UniSuper board, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), the ...

Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
Institutional investors are facing divided opinion on the merit of an integrated versus a siloed asset strategy to emerging market exposure. While return potentials in emerging markets are high, the volatility of those returns and greater downside risk ...

OneVue adds retail super to platform

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
OneVue has added a retail superannuation offering to its unified managed account platform for advisers. The addition will enable a client's total wealth, including retail superannuation investments to be transitioned across to the platform and be reported ...

Advisers need to work on social media presence

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
Advisers should look closely at their objectives before determining which social media channels to use and how. This is the message from the most recent address by president of i-Impact Group and US social media expert, Claudio Pannunzio. "The core ...

Fixed asset allocation outdated: Schroders

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
An unconstrained asset portfolio where allocations are free to move is the best model for the current environment, according to Schroders. Simon Doyle, head of fixed income and multi-asset said that while most of the industry is still operating on fixed ...

Risk advisers optimistic about long-term

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
Risk advisers are looking beyond short-term uncertainty and remain positive on long-term practice viability, according to an index commissioned by Zurich Financial Services Australia. The index constructed by Beaton Research and Consulting, surveyed ...

Adviser obligations need to be institutionalised: AFA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
Educating industry professionals and the public in general is vital if the advice profession is to overcome the reputation damage caused by events such as the collapse of Storm Financial, according to the head of the AFA. Speaking at the Association ...