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Aussie fintechs sell to grow

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
More than 30 Australian and New Zealand financial technology start-ups have put their case forward as to how they can progress the digital expansion of financial services. Speaking in front of prominent investors and industry professionals at the Afiniation ...

NAB Prosper launches next month

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... NAB Prosper does, "we tell them and immediately warn them to call our phone-based team." "If they feed in a self-managed super fund (SMSF) or a defined benefit fund, obviously those have a much greater deal of complexity and the tool says it will not ...

Plastics manufacturer launches $40m bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... Integrated Packaging Group has launched a bond issue of $40 million, available to sophisticated investors and self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees. The four-year fixed rate senior unsecured issue is arranged by FIIG Securities and will pay 4.9% above ...

Direct investment options are not SMSFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
The SMSF Association has renewed calls for Australians to seek professional financial advice whether it be managing or seeking to begin a self-managed superannuation fund. SMSF Association chief executive Andrea Slattery said everybody should get advice ...

ASIC warns super trustees

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has warned superannuation trustees about the promotion of member direct or self-managed investment options. ASIC commissioner Peter Kell said that occasionally the promotion of self-managed ...

Vanguard to launch international fixed income ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... Australian investment strategies, which typically represent around 16%, and on average don't appear at all in self-managed super fund portfolios. He added that bonds (and, consequently, bond ETFs) can provide protection against downside equity risk ...

BTFG adds managed funds to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... of previous releases, including managed portfolios, cash and term deposits." BTFG also plans to introduce a self-managed super fund (SMSF) solution and direct equities to allow individuals to trade on the ASX. "This will provide advisers and their clients ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Magellan Global Equities Fund, Douglass and his team are making a credible bid for the notoriously tough to crack self-managed super fund market. "We realised there was a large market that was either advised by stockbrokers, or didn't use an adviser ...

New SMSFs slowing as boomers retire

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
Net establishments of new self-managed super funds have steadily declined since mid-2014, according to ATO and APRA data. Specifically, net establishments have fallen by 24% to 22,822 in the 12 months to June 2015. While this can be partly attributed ...

Adviser linked to Spring FG banned for document forgery

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... an authorised representative of Spring Financial Group between May 2011 and May 2012. Nicholas Hunter was a self-managed super fund (SMSF) adviser who was selling property on behalf of MOGS, a Queensland property development company. The company is now ...