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Hedge fund growth plans hampered by lack of demand

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013
... priorities for hedge funds, changes in revenues and costs, technology, headcount, outsourcing and shadowing, and the future of the hedge fund industry. While managers, particularly at the smaller end of the scale, remain bullish about both inflows and ...

Praemium strikes deal with RBS

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... account (SMA) platform. The platform is compliant with the UK's Retail Distribution Review (RDR), the UK equivalent of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms which came into effect at the beginning of 2013. RDR will come into effect in Jersey ...

FPA to lobby against FoFA redundancy

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will lobby to take the opt-in requirement and other redundancies out of the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms as soon as the government issues its proposal to amend the legislation. "Opt-in is redundant ...

Fund managers rethink distribution approach after FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... their retail and institutional distribution teams closer together to reflect industry consolidation brought on by the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform. Aberdeen picked up on the trend early when it merged its retail and distribution team two ...

BetaShares set to increase adviser focus

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... responsible for leading relationships with financial advisers. The ETF provider has created the role after realising that the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation has increased the opportunities for ETF growth. James has over two decades experience ...

Advisers still servicing few wealthy clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013
Financial advisers are still servicing very few and very wealthy clients, despite the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reform's objective of bringing advice to more Australians. Only 15% of Australians use a financial adviser, the Global Investor Pulse ...

FoFA boosts advice business valuation

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
The valuations of advice businesses compliant with the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) regulation have increased in Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. "Concerns around FoFA have not lowered valuation multiples and in some states they ...

Sinodinos hints at relaxing conflicted remuneration rules

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... some forms of remuneration currently regarded as conflicted may be allowed under the government's amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms. In a pre-recorded interview with Association of Superannuation Funds of Australian (ASFA) chief ...

Transaction-based fees hurt private banking clients

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
... movement out of these models will be very painful for the industry and there will be people out of jobs," he said. The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms have all but rendered commission-based structures obsolete in the retail sector, but private ...

Parliament to address large financial services agenda

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... to 12% by 1 July 2021. The move will delays existing legislation which would see the SG reach 12% by 1 July 2019. The Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation will also be discussed in Parliament. Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos will take a ...