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Platforms pushed by utility as well as technology

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
While rapid advances in technology is putting platforms under pressure to keep evolving, platform operators believe they need to not just add functionality but features that actually improve investor's connectivity and usefulness. Speaking at the "Riding ...

PROFILE: netwealth head of advice Simon Micallef

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... after World War II, Micallef was attracted to financial planning early into his career. He worked for National Australia Bank's (NAB) retail banking arm for three years and three more for NAB's business banking division. "I then realised that there were ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... commentary - it didn't fit with Wall Street's performance of the day - it was an important insight into the Fed's head. "Fed Bank of New York President William Dudley said the pace of eventual rate increases "will probably be relatively slow," depending ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... cents to $4.42 after announcing a major increase in the size of its resources. The banks were also lower, with Commonwealth Bank down 17 cents at $79.36, Westpac down 16 cents at $33.62, National Australia Bank down 14 cents at $32.61 and ANZ 2.5 cents ...

BT to manage $1.2 billion for People's Choice

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
BT will manage $1.2 billion in funds under advice from member-owned financial institution People's Choice Credit Union. The credit union was previously working with multiple platform providers and individual fund managers and made the decision to look ...

La Trobe registers for the Shanghai Free Trade Zone

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
Credit specialist fund manager La Trobe Financial has formally registered in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ ) as part of an effort to participate in China's proposed financial market deregulation. "Asia's development and population base ...

New infrastructure fund for SMSFs launches

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... executive Nicole Connolly is also on board, as is former Industry Superannuation Property Trust managing director and ME Bank director Arthur Apted. "Up until now, smaller institutional investors, high net worth investors and SMSFs have largely been ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... March share price index futures contract was up 19 points at 5,436. In local economic news on Tuesday, the minutes of Reserve Bank of Australia's May board meeting will be released, and Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson delivers his post-federal budget ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... cent, to $60.89 and Fortescue Metals, which only produces iron ore, was 8.5 cents, or 1.9 per cent, lower at $4.495. Westpac bank had lost 30 cents to $33.98, ANZ was down 17 cents at $32.77, National Australia Bank was 24 cents lower at $33.25 and the ...

Equity trustees beds down ANZ Trustees with new appointment

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... including being the former chair of the Aviva Investors Australia Asset Allocation Committee and former member of the ANZ Private Bank Regional Investment Council, the peak asset allocation forum across Australia and the Pacific for the bank," Boubouras ...