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Advisers urged to discuss structured giving

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... assessed. For too long the focus has been on dollar amounts of contribution where it's time to look at the portion of net wealth and income that is given, Robertson says. "If someone gives away a million dollars, everyone goes, 'Wow - that's a lot,'" ...

Global wealth boosts IT spend

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Much of the USD$35 billion analyst firm Ovum expects global wealth management to spend on IT by 2016 will be in digital channels. According to forecasts from the global analysts, between 2011 and 2016 the Asia-Pacific region will increase its IT spend ...

Julius Baer buys Merrill Lynch wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Swiss private banking group Julius Baer will acquire Merrill Lynch's International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America. It's understood Julius Baer paid 860 million Swiss francs for the acquisition, which is expected ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... resources stocks, BHP Billiton is up nine cents to $32.71 but Rio Tinto has given up 28 cents at $54.82. On the earnings front, wealth manager AMP has lifted its first half net profit by 10 per cent to $383 million, sending its stock up 11 cents to $4.27. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... resources stocks, BHP Billiton is up nine cents to $32.71 but Rio Tinto has given up 28 cents at $54.82. On the earnings front, wealth manager AMP has lifted its first half net profit by 10 per cent to $383 million, sending its stock up 11 cents to $ ...

ETSL appoints superannuation chair

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... "I announced a few months ago our intention to restructure our business so that ETSL becomes part of a broader private wealth services business, along with our private client trustee, wealth management and aged care advisory activities, and the appointment ...

Decouple next-gen education from estate planning conversation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
Financial education for younger generations from families of wealth should be a separate issue from wealth transfer planning and deserves to be treated as such. That's the message from Andrew Hewison, director and private client adviser at boutique ...

Super loyalty defies low return expectations

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... investor attachment to non-performing funds. It is investor apathy, argues Kristen Turnbull the researcher's head of advice, wealth and super which led over half of the members surveyed (57%) to suggest they would stick with their fund even if it didn't ...

Wilson heads-up COIN

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
Former head of Asgard, Wayne Wilson will join tech and software provider Rubik as managing director - wealth with responsibility for the newly acquired COIN business. The appointment marks Rubik's expansion into the wealth space that culminated in last ...

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... water as Olam International (a Singaporean food company) and Hassad Foods (the agricultural investment arm of the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar). The investment of the Chinese-owned Shenhua Coal in NSW's Hunter Valley will also come with an attendant ...