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AMP deflects ASIC attack reports

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... being sold AMP products to determine whether AMP planners are meeting their best interest duty. As part of its ongoing Wealth Management Project, established in October 2014, ASIC has been scrutinising the conduct of "large advice entities" such as AMP ...

Australia's super pool now more than $2 trillion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... member returns and national savings." "For most Australian households, superannuation represents the largest component of wealth outside the family home and differences in performance, even small differences, have a significant impact on accumulated ...

DST partners UK wealth manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
UK wealth manager Old Mutual Wealth will be consolidating multiple websites and microsites onto DST's Opendoor front-office platform, providing a single customer view for institutions, superannuation funds, and third-party administrators. Old Mutual ...

HUB24 and GPS Wealth launch managed accounts platform

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
HUB24 and independent licensee GPS Wealth have launched a new white label managed accounts platform. The platform, branded CAREportfolio, spans super, pension and investments, and provides a complete managed account and wrap offering for all its member ...

Low-cost super awash with inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
... can, for example, open up a bank account and you can see your super right alongside and have a clear understanding of your wealth position," he said. When the Super for Life products were first formed in 2007, Englund said the price point "was very deliberately ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... investment officers, portfolio managers and directors at private and public pension funds, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds in America, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Spring FG acquires robo-advice company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Independent licensee Spring FG has acquired Digifi Group, a company specialising in 'robo-advice'. Digifi's websites SharecafA(C) and Sharescene have more than 70,000 members and attract more than 7,000 unique visitors each day. The acquisition more ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... during his 2015 Budget speech. The Treasurer predicted that services, including finance, "will be the big new drivers of wealth creation and job creation over the next decade." He noted that "for every dollar we spend buying Chinese goods and services ...

CCMC chief executive appointed as lead ombudsman

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... involving investments, financial advice, life insurance and superannuation. In a statement the FOS said Smith brings a wealth of experience in the financial planning sector as well as developed relationships with regulators, industry and consumer groups ...

SEC and FINRA issue robo warning

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... safeguard their personal information. Investors should also appreciate how automated investment tools are integrated into a wealth management group's sales process. "An automated investment tool, like other investment programs, may be programmed to consider ...