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BT aligned advice boutique appoints new chief

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... Bank and Westpac executive Steve Watts has been appointed to the newly created chief executive role at Queensland advice boutique MQ Financial Services. MQ operates under the Magnitude Dealer Group license, which is part of BT Financial Group, and has ...

BTIM fixed focus for new financial year

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... chief executive officer, BT Investment Management (BTIM), said this morning the group had made good progress on its multi boutique model, putting all asset classes onto one multi boutique revenues stream. "We have re-positioned our income boutique strategy ...

FOFA fatigue prompts new Guardian offering

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... Eventually we want teams of advisers matched up and continuously working with teams of paraplanners," said Harris. The boutique dealer group plans to expand the free paraplanning offering over the next 12 months to include any risk advice within superannuation ...

Dealer groups compete for planners: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... according to the report. The survey, which ran from July 29 to August 8 this year, had four types of planners responding with boutique/independent planners (45.7%), dealer group - non-product aligned, practice based (33.8%), dealer group - product aligned ...

Mercer plans for post FOFA advice dominance

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... dealer groups, there is no competitor that has anything like that." Williams said Mercer would target all planners from boutique firms to private and major bank-aligned advisers, with clients ranging from the mass affluent to high net wealth. This is ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... size of the equities market and returns averaging 9.5% over the last 10 years. But Tony Bates, financial adviser from boutique high net worth advisory firm Bluepoint Consulting told attendees that he had yet to recommend residential property to an SMSF ...

Planners embrace 8IP Asia Pac Partners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... dealer groups, practices and high net worth individuals. To be available under a Product Disclosure Statement (PDS), the boutique investment fund manager said investors had expressed a keen interest in the fund, but wanted a simpler vehicle. "Our marketing ...

Australian Unity supporting advisers with appointment

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... Unity, Cockle was director and national sales manager at Audit Insurance Solutions. "He [Cockle] knows the boutique financial planning sector inside out and this will be especially important as FOFA carves two clear market segments - licensees whose ...

HLB Mann Judd acquires Howard fin planners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
Accounting and financial advisory firm, HLB Mann Judd (SA) has acquired boutique firm Howard Financial Planners to expand its Wealth Management Division. The expanded Wealth Management Division is now one of the largest AXA Financial Planning practices ...

Hunter Hall launches two equity funds

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... adviser demand for global equities with the launch of a fully-hedged global equities fund and an Asian equities fund. The boutique manager has introduced the new fully hedged global equities fund as financial advisers look more deliberately at protecting ...