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Next-gen platforms cater for wealth management renaissance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
Rapidly evolving technology and how investors interact with it, accompanied by changing client expectations and regulatory reform is pushing platform developers to fundamentally review their offerings. Forcing the strategic rethink is the growing disconnect ...

SMSF contributions up 15%

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... funds increased by 13.9% to $19.7 billion. Listed and unlisted shares accounted for the largest share of self managed super fund assets at $136 billion (31%), which is only slightly larger than funds held in cash and deposits, which sit at $134 billion ...

AMP Capital chases Asian growth

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
Retail and institutional investors will be targeted in China and Japan, as AMP Capital chases growth in the Asian region. Plans to provide retail offerings to the Chinese market were currently stalled by laws preventing life companies owning funds management ...

Discretion strictly case-by-case in new SMSF audit scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... case-by-case basis, for accountants registering with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission's self managed super fund auditor program. Requirements such as tertiary qualifications, an exam and other registration conditions will become mandatory ...

Financial Simplicity boosts managed accounts offering

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
Financial Simplicity has upgraded its managed accounts offering to include a personalised multi-tax wrapper rebalancing to model portfolios for its wealth management clients. This new functionality has been added to enable wealth managers to calculate ...

Super fees are falling but only just

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... by 517 super funds and mastertrusts, covering $810bn and 27 million members. The survey also covered 40 self managed super fund (SMSF) administration groups. "The net result is the fee centre of gravity is increasingly moving towards low cost fee benchmarks ...

Super FUM hits $1.4 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
Superannuation assets jumped 4% during 2011-12, defying lack lustre returns of 0.5%, to reach $1.4 trillion, according figures just released by the superannuation prudential regulator APRA. Industry funds grew the fastest, up 6.1% through the year to ...

SMSF's need life cover education

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
Knowledge of life insurance offers is the biggest barrier to self managed super fund members taking it up within their fund, said AIA Australia. AIA Australia surveyed approximately 400 advisers on the knowledge and take-up of life insurance within ...

Structured products right for the risk-aware

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... have a legitimate and - at times - rewarding role to play in an investment portfolio," he said. "For a self managed super fund with $500 000 a structured product may offer an ideal way to capture market upside for an outlay of the interest payments. ...

NAB launches margin loan product for SMSFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... SMSF investors borrow money to invest in listed shares and unlisted managed funds. The product allows self managed super fund (SMSF) investors to borrow a minimum of $20,000 to purchase a single parcel of shares or units in a managed fund from the NAB ...