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Adviser Toolbox free for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... planning website, Adviser Toolbox, taps imminent regulatory reforms to appeal to planners. The group, owned by boutique financial planning business Iplanner, was created by advisers, paraplanners and software technicians as an efficient online financial ...

BTIM targets planners and boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
BT Investment Management plans to buy more businesses to boost its multi-boutique arm and expand its retail products in the coming years to suit planner demand. Emilio Gonzalez, chief executive of BTIM, said at the firm's annual general meeting yesterday ...

Planners select HUB24

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... said Pettiona, with clients able to look at their charts, indices and the like through this application. On October 26, boutique stockbroker Investorfirst acquired HUB24 in a scrip-for-scrip deal worth $20 million as it prepares to shift into an "integrated ...

Fee-for-service products gain pace

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... new planning products and services are being launched to help planners handle the transition.E&W Strategic Partners, a boutique business strategy and improvement consultancy, has developed an FPA-accredited handbook as a transition tool for planners ...

Lack of confidence impedes adviser referrals

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
Increasing levels of existing client referrals provide more opportunity for boutique financial planning firms to build their revenue and business, according to Macquarie Practice Consulting. Yet lack of confidence and smart strategic marketing gets ...

More products, more support for planners: BTIM

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... has with Westpac Group and boosting the firm's product profiles through this channel. BTIM will also develop its multi-boutique model in order to expand and attract other investment capabilities. "As a pure investment house we want to broaden our capability ...

Macq fills gap in mid-tier planning consultancy

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... [business]," she said. As a result, Macquarie Practice Consulting is expanding its services beyond boutiques to target mid-tier financial planning firms and dealer groups. The firm will offer its services to all firms in three areas - business strategy ...

ETFs tough to white label

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... one ETF," he said. ETFs have received the biggest support from self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees and boutique financial advisers. "Boutique financial advisers are definitely using ETFs more than the mainstream dealer group market," he said. "That's ...

Back to basics key to planners successs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... being successful compared with their peers, according to Macquarie. Research from Macquarie Practice Consulting's 2010 Boutique Practice Benchmarking study showed that one of the primary factors that distinguishes a profitable boutique firm from an unprofitable ...

Civic joins Financial Index Australia

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2010
... eventual retirement," said Waller. Financial Index chief executive, Spiro Paule, said he is increasingly seeing large boutique firms such as Civic facing complex succession planning issues. "[Advisers] looking to retire need succession plans and they've ...