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BT eyes accountants with new platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
BT Financial Group is preparing to address trends in the financial services industry with the launch of the NextGen platform, which eyes both accountants and self-managed super funds (SMSF). The new platform is aimed at supporting an accountant-adviser ...

Superannuation needs change: Keating

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Australia could use a government-run longevity insurance fund to help provide a better retirement to people who are living longer, said former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Speaking today at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

Advisers need to work on social media presence

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
Advisers should look closely at their objectives before determining which social media channels to use and how. This is the message from the most recent address by president of i-Impact Group and US social media expert, Claudio Pannunzio. "The core ...

Research houses in regulatory spotlight

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
ASIC has put down proposals to completely separate research houses from their business units to ensure conflicts of interest are properly managed. The consultation paper was developed over concerns about the independence and quality of research reports. ...

ASX marks a decade of local ETFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is set to host its first Australian exchange traded fund (ETF) conference in Sydney in June this year, ten years on since the first ETF was traded in Australia and at a time when the sector is enjoying explosive ...

Instreet taps adviser demand for commodities

INSTREET UPDATE  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Boutique investment house Instreet has launched a series of new products designed to give investors access to commodities, Asian equities and Australian equities. Instreet has added another five customised investments from its Link and Mast Series ...

APRA concedes on life ins data, slaps down friendlies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
After taking on and beating the super funds industry on public disclosure of fund level data, the regulator APRA has bowed to life insurance industry concerns and agreed to not disclose group wide performance metrics. In November 2009 APRA released ...

HUB24 wins Sentry mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
Sentry Group has appointed HUB24 to provide Unified Managed Accounts (UMA) for the dealership's 330 planners. Sentry is the first national dealer group client of HUB24, according to a press statement. Commenting on the appointment, Sentry chief executive ...

Capital protection should be core to satellite

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
The core-satellite approach to investing can drive even better returns if used together with a tailor-made capital protection strategy, said an asset design consultant for planners and SMSFs. Tony Rumble, founder of Alpha Structured Investments, designed ...

RARE wins $10m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2009
The $1 billion industry super fund AvSuper has appointed RARE Infrastructure with a $10 million mandate. In a statement posted earlier this month on the AvSuper website, the mandate follows the fund's Trustee's decision to "further enhance AvSuper's ...