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Voting opens on the SelectingSuper popular awards

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
Voting has opened for the SelectingSuper 2014 self managed super fund (SMSF) administrator of the year popular choice and for the consumer choice award division of the SelectingSuper fund awards. Results in the SMSF popular vote will contribute to determining ...

HUB24 posts record inflows in the September quarter

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... has 38 licensees, three of them added in the last quarter, using the platform. Non-custody asset reporting and choice of broker software services were completed and a Zurich insurance option has been added to the platform. In a statement to the Australian ...

Cyber risks for local wealth sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
Growth of cyber risks has prompted insurance brokers Marsh to appoint a specialist national manager focused on the growing risk product class. The broking group has just announced that Susan Elias will join them as National Manager - Cyber, in the company's ...

Lonsec joins ASX mFund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
Lonsec has become the latest broker to join the ASX mFund Settlement Service. This means customers who use Lonsec as their online broker will now be able to access the 63 funds listed on the mFund service. Lonsec is the eighth broker to join mFund ...

MyState Financial becomes MyState Bank

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... will simplify MyState's proposition for customers as it enters new markets, particularly through its expanding mortgage broker and aggregator channel. As an authorised deposit-taking institution, MyState has been governed by the same prudential regulations ...

US insurance agency fined US$200,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
Highlighting how soft are the fines imposed on financial institutions by Australian regulators, in the US the aptly named Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has just ordered an insurance agency to pay US$200,000 for orchestrating illegal referrals. ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... opportunity," he told Financial Standard. "Super funds can't bring all their capabilities in house. It would be like a sell-side broker owning every best analyst there is in the market. It can't happen. So there are things that super funds are going ...

Legg Mason receives first mFund inflow

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... on the settlement service. The first investment was in the Western Asset Australian Bond Trust, and came through online broker Bell Direct. Legg Mason's other funds listed on mFund include multi-asset retirement income, diversified, small companies ...

Aluminum windows and ferries: the case for small-cap investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
With most investors allocating much of their equity towards the big four and resources, Perennial Investment Partners has made a case for investing in small companies that make aluminum windows or own the Kangaroo Island ferries. "We see some near-term ...

ASX mFund yet to attract major brokers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... quarters of Australia's online retail investors could have difficulty accessing the ASX's mFund service because their existing broker does not offer access. According to figures from Investment Trends, collectively CommSec, E*Trade, Nabtrade and Westpac ...