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EU instos shed banks, set up alternative trading venues

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
... New Zealand chief executive Brad Howell told Financial Standard. ICAP, the world's largest voice and electronic dealer broker and provider of post trade risk services, has detected this trend in Europe, following the introduction of new regulation that ...

Chinese whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
It was enough to make anyone wet their pants - headlines about the 8.5% biggest one-day fall since February 2007 dive in the Shanghai Composite index yesterday. What triggered the sell-off, nobody really knows. Someone shouted "fire" and everyone and ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
Recent high-profile mergers and acquisitions of aligned advisers by independent groups are a sign of a growing trend. In the past three months, former ANZ managing director of advice and distribution Paul Barrett's firm AZ Next Generation Advisory (AZ ...

InvestSMART launches free robo-advice tool

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
Managed funds discount broker InvestSMART has launched a free direct-to-consumer "robo-advice" tool. The tool allows consumers to input their existing assets (if any), answer questions on desired outcomes and time horizons and then compare available ...

Advice demand up as direct investment grows

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... full service brokers' clients were happy with the level of consultation their brokers provided and 31% described their broker as "distant." These responses "suggest that a number of clients of online brokers had some need for advice and consultation ...

mFund doubles size in 6 months

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
The ASX's mFund platform doubled its funds under management in the last six months and has just added a fixed income high yield fund. Bentham Asset Management High Yield Fund is the latest addition to mFund Settlement Service. The platform has now 95 ...

ANZ SMSF head moves to Zurich

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... Seales will work closely with the Australian general insurance executive team and will lead the delivery of outstanding broker and customer service. She holds a Bachelor of Business from Griffith University and has more than 20 years' experience in banking ...

Shares stronger at noon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... stepping back half a cent to $2.435. Pathology and radiology provider Sonic Healthcare was up strongly again on positive broker reports about Monday's news that it had acquired Swiss medical laboratory group Medisupport in a $455.3 million deal.

US fiduciary rule fight not slowing down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... adviser commission remuneration could result in lower take-up of advice type services and lead to substantive changes to broker-dealer business models. Bentsen conceded, however that: "I want to reiterate that this is not about being for or against the ...

Saxo launches trading platform for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... for trading platforms to be powerful and feature-rich, with half of SMSF investors who trade online picking their main broker based on ease of use, and one in five prepared to switch for improved platform features." "We've seen a behavioral shift among ...