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Praemium to upgrade platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
Next month Praemium will roll out major upgrades to its integrated managed accounts platform for advisers and investors. Praemium has upgraded the technology, the coverage of the managed accounts, coverage of investments and user functionality, the ...

New owner at Strategic Insight

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
New York-based research house Strategic Insight has been acquired in a deal expected to close soon. The buyer is Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a company speciaising in responsible investment and governance solutions. The transaction's value ...

TAL and Zurich lead inflows, CommInsure lags: Strategic Insights

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Latest figures from research group Strategic Insights show mixed results for the country's largest insurers. Overall, the life insurance sector grew steadily by 1.7% year-on-year and reached $16.5 billion. However, it was a mixed result for the ...

OneVue offloads trustee business

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... completes its divestment program that was focused on the platform services and fund services operations, comprising managed fund administration and super member administration. Over 2018, OneVue sold its self-managed superannuation administration business ...

$300k makes advice worthwhile: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
Roy Morgan research suggests having a minimum of $300,000 triggers the need for financial advice. The survey of more than 50,000 consumers in the year to October reinforces that financial advisers tend to target clients at the top end of the income ...

Impact investment manager grows board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
The deputy chair of ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel joined a $730 million impact fund manager as a guardian of purpose. Impact Investment Group (IIG) has welcomed legal and risk professional Cilla Boreham to the board of Impact Funds Management, which ...

Blockchain comes to managed funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
A global funds network used by 95% of Australian platforms will migrate its entire network to blockchain in May 2019. Calastone expects its new distributed market infrastructure (DMI) to dramatically improve the infrastructure for trading and reporting ...

Culture dominates shareholder engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
As the Royal Commission sharpens its focus on accountability and corporate culture, an institutional investor says these two issues will now shape conversations with boards more than ever. SSGA senior managing director Susan Darroch said the significant ...

Lenders must recognise millennial wealth strategies

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
More than 12% of online investors are gearing their investment portfolio and this could double in the next 12 months, the latest Investment Trends study reveals. And millennials are playing catchup. The research house recently released its 2018 Borrowing ...

Fund manager launches HNW advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
An ASX-listed fund manager has officially launched into the high-net-worth advice market. Clime Investment Management is now offering tailored financial advice for HNW and sophisticated investor clients within its subsidiary Clime Private Wealth. It ...