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Adviser wins Masters course

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... Financial Group to go towards professional study. The four scholarships were awarded to: Emma Arthur of SHB Business and Wealth Advisers; Amanda White of Skilled Paraplanning Services; Nga Vu of Kearney Financial Planning; and Werner Watzdorf of McLeod ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Assets under management increased for the majority of sovereign wealth funds in 2014 despite steadily declining oil and commodity prices, according to research by Preqin. This is significant, Preqin argues, because many sovereign wealth funds rely on ...

Credit Suisse appoints new Australia chief

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... recently as co-head of investment banking. He will now be responsible for overseeing the company's Australian private banking, wealth management and investment banking arms and report directly to Credit Suisse Asia Pacific chief executive Helman Sitohang. ...

Go-it-alone investment culture taking hold in Europe

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
Direct-to-consumer retail distribution via platforms is on the rise in the UK and the rest of Europe looks set to follow, according to new research by global analytics firm Cerulli. In the United Kingdom the low-margin business of fund distribution ...

SMSF the next frontier for robo advice

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... for robo advice but it is not a threat to financial planners according to a recent report from FinDigital and Ignition Wealth. The report, which reviewed 45 robo advice offerings, suggests sophisticated investors aged 60 and over are among the fastest ...

Vantage launches SMSF-ready private equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... strong support from local SMSFs, family offices and small institutional investors, as well as clients of Perpetual Private Wealth and other financial planning and advisory firms nationally. The group expects to close the fund to new investors by mid- ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... investors competing for a comparatively small pool of assets, prices have sky-rocketed. The managing director of the sovereign wealth fund referenced an opinion piece in the AFR which said the IFM Global Infrastructure Fund's winning bid of $7.45 billion ...

ClearView predicts end of independent financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... initial advice payment allowance and ongoing commission. In fact, they are both well wide of the mark," said Clearview Wealth managing director Simon Swanson. "Any remuneration design should support quality advice. While it should discourage over-selling ...

Chief executive steps down at AWI

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
A decision by Australasian Wealth Investments to integrate its digital properties saw chief executive and managing director Ben Heap resign on Tuesday. In a statement to the ASX, Heap said he continues "to be passionate about the innovation in financial ...

Policies can adjust super tax concessions: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... achieve a fairly high standard of living, it's appropriate to question whether taxpayers should fund incentives to build wealth beyond this," she said. The comments came in response to the release of the federal government's Tax discussion paper this ...