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SMSF pool still ripe for financial advice: AMP

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018
... survey of 700 AMP Capital SMSF investors alongside Investment Trends to derive the findings. The research revealed managed funds advice as another area of opportunity for financial advisers to tap into the SMSF trustee base. "The research showed 22% ...

Active managers must explain value better: Formica

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... On top of flagging its new investment strategy, Kapstream is also looking at entering Australia's exchange-traded managed funds (ETMF) market, Adams said. "We've got significant scale in the five largest investment pools in the world," Formica said. ...

Asia Region Funds Passport legislation tabled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... derived from managing one of the world's highest regarded pension systems. They also manage the fourth-largest pool of managed funds. "With the right policy settings and support of our Asian economic partners, financial services, which is already the ...

Perpetual GM joins Evans Dixon ahead of IPO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... team for Perpetual's corporate client services team, which provides wholesale trustee and custodial services for managed funds. He took on this role having been the corporate clients general manager at the Trust Company, which Perpetual acquired in December ...

AMP introduces SMA range

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... investments. Constructed and managed by the AMP research team, the portfolios provide access to a diversified range of managed funds designed to meet specific goals within three key categories: accumulation, income and objective-based. The portfolios ...

Global Merces launches managed funds regtech

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
Asset manager and funds services provider Global Merces has launched a regtech solution that slashes the managed funds application process to five minutes. FUND.ID, a straight through processing system, on-boards new clients using an electronic signature ...

SMSF industry hails ATO appointment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... 1992, becoming partner in 2006 and working closely with major industry and retail super funds as well as boutique managed funds. She has also previously worked for PwC in London. SMSF Association chief executive John Maroney said the ATO's appointment ...

FOS submission points finger at advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... financial advice and failure to follow customer instructions. Such disputes generally involved financial advice, managed funds, stockbroking and trading derivatives, options and cryptocurrency. FOS stated: "Inappropriate financial advice can result in ...

Contribution cap reforms see SMSFs spend cash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... equities increased from 35.4% to 36.9%. Meanwhile, international equities allocations rose from 13.9% to 14.2%. "Managed funds were increasingly used as a vehicle to invest in both domestic and international equities, as trustees look for new growth ...

Is risk advice at risk?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
... planners. "To do this job, they do not need to understand transition to retirement strategies, the intricacies of managed funds, or the latest superannuation caps legislation. That kind of education is not appropriate," he said.