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BGL 360 Fund commercial release imminent

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... 360. The Simple Fund 360 will be released on 19 March 2014 and will include almost 100 data feeds from the major banks, wraps and brokers. BGL managing director Ron Lesh said that this solution is a one-of-a-kind as you can access it from anywhere with ...

AQUA II poses a challenge to wraps

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... not big platforms or brokers would oppose ASIC's proposals. The ASX also downplayed the threat the AMFS may pose to big wraps. "We're agnostic about what kind of customers use the product,"an ASX spokesperson told the Financial Standard. AMFS will target ...

CFS FirstWrap regains platform top spot

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... comparing 25 leading master trust and wrap platforms across over 463 aspects of their service offerings. In its analysis of wraps which support planners advising on a range of investments, netwealth came third with Asgard eWrap and Macquarie Wrap completing ...

FoFA reforms dilute platform pricing power: Centurion

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... scale in a commoditised market, you could easily mount a business case for the four major providers of retail platforms and wraps to share the same administration infrastructure and possibly investment management models," Wrightson explained. The transaction ...

Morphic Asset Management expands team

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... a very short time." While many financial advisers need to wait for the MGOF to receive a rating and be included on more wraps, Lowenstein said the level of interest is high. As a result, the Fund is slowly increasing its flows from a widening group of ...

Retirement solution upside for investment managers: Oliver Wyman

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... earnings post-GFC have been driving down what were already modest profit margins. As a case in point, net flows into platforms/Wraps have gone from around $20 billion in 2001 to around $1 billion in 2012. "What's causing this negative impact to flows ...

Platforms at 10 year low

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... under management, AMP and Mercer reported relatively little change, while the remainder experienced decreases. Meantime, wraps $143.3 billion of FUM (33.9% of the overall Masterfunds market) fell by 3.5% over the past year. Inflows totalled $53.2 billion ...

Platform FUM plummets by $16.5bn

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... The overall Masterfund market now sits at $411.3bn according to new data from Plan For Life, which was broken down into wraps, platforms and master trusts categories for the research. "Uncertain, volatile and more often than not negative underlying investment ...

Move to horizontal integration for wraps

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
The days of the traditional approach to vertical integration by wraps may be numbered, according to online portfolio management provider Sharesight. A reasonable degree of vertical integration has been available for those buying a whole product package ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... bailouts. European markets mostly fell on the news. Traders are looking ahead to a crucial summit of European leaders that wraps up Friday. They hope to see more concrete solutions to restore long-term confidence in the euro and rescue the region from ...