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Midwinter unveils digital advice platform

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... can be used to access a largely untapped investor class. To illustrate, she pointed to FinDigital and Ignition Wealth research showing that 60-80% of retail consumers don't seek financial advice because they believe they can do it themselves. "People ...

Bank results underpin wealth management new era

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... financial services market by both aligned and independent banking, asset manager, superannuation, insurance, platform, research house, asset consultant and advice providers." This means that the industry will have to deal with the conflicts of interest ...

Financial services SMEs top confidence survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... were more worried about economic conditions this year than last. "The majority of the 620 businesses surveyed in the research are medium-size businesses, employing up to 200 people. These are significant businesses that, if confident about their prospects ...

Goldman Sachs bond fund recommended by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
The Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond Fund has been awarded a 'Recommended' rating by Lonsec Research in its first review. The unconstrained bond fund has the flexibility to take a more dynamic approach than traditional fixed income funds by allowing ...

FTSE appoints AU/NZ director

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... New Zealand. Previously an executive director at MSCI, Justin Walsh will assist in expanding the product analytics and research, client distribution, client services and marketing for FTSE's Australian business. He will be working with FTSE product specialist ...

Aurora appoints portfolio manager from Philo

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... capital losses," he added. Prior to his role at Philo Capital, Dive was head of basic materials at Citigroup investment research. He holds bachelor degrees in both Economics and Law from Sydney University, Canadian Securities Course and is a CFA charter ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... on the market after Westpac unveiled a flat first half cash profit of $3.78 billion, Australian Stock Report head of research Chris Conway said. "Westpac had missed expectations and are therefore being punished," he said. "This is weighing on the other ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... things. "They want to see you have a good sound investment advice capability behind you, based on highly credentialed research and good qualified people internally," she said. She added that "it's not as if PI insurance is unobtainable," arguing that ...

Perpetual Private hires two analysts

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Perpetual Private has bolstered its investment research team with the appointed two new analysts. David Blunt and Deana Leong have joined the high net worth advice firm's 11 person research team, which covers capital markets research, asset allocation ...

CSRI identifies super flaws

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... including a thorough review of the pension means test." CSRI executive director and principal of superannuation policy and research at the University of New South Wales Patricia Pascuzzo expanded on these issues in a newspaper column. She cited poor ...