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Advice firm chooses MDAs over platforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... 350 clients and $160 million in assets under advice. It currently uses Westpac's Asgard, Macquarie Wrap and self-managed super funds (SMSF) Class Super. Moran Howlett will be transitioning to managedaccounts.com.au, which was recently listed in the Australian ...

Investors Mutual gets in on LIC act

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... Investors Mutual founder and investment director Anton Tagliaferro hopes will appeal to the growing number of self-managed super fund investors and their advisers. "We want to offer a ready-made portfolio of shares which offers diversification outside ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... Australia's institutional allocation is not just low - it is rock bottom, the lowest of all OECD members. The self-managed super (SMSF) sector is even more thinly spread across fixed income assets. Figures sourced by Rice Warner and cited by the Australian ...

Citi develops white label banking for industry funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... label its retail banking services for industry super funds as a way of stemming the outflow to retail funds and self-managed super funds (SMSFs), Financial Standard can reveal. In what could prove a lifeline to industry funds in the battle to retain ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... Australian infrastructure Geoff Frankish. Currently infrastructure investments make up less than 1% of the average self-managed super fund (SMSF) but Frankish says advisers are beginning to understand the value of increasing allocations in their clients' ...

Retail fund members most unsatisfied: Roy Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... members were satisfied with their fund's financial performance, compared with 53.7% of retail fund members. Self-managed super fund members were by far the most satisfied, at 75.6%, followed by public sector funds, at 65.5%. ESS Super again topped the ...

Retail fund members most unsatisfied: Roy Morgan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... members were satisfied with their fund's financial performance, compared with 53.7% of retail fund members. Self-managed super fund members were by far the most satisfied, at 75.6%, followed by public sector funds, at 65.5%. ESS Super again topped the ...

Manny Pohl issues prospectus for new retail LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... Small Ordinaries Accumulation Index which has seen a modest return of 5.4%. Pohl is specifically targeting self-managed super funds with his new Barrack Street Investments LIC. "It's widely acknowledged that SMSFs bias is heavily weighted to ASX top ...

Platinum steps up focus on adviser market

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... international shares strategy within the adviser market. Neilson has identified an opportunity within the burgeoning self-managed super fund (SMSF) market. "We're trying to encourage more Australian money to go abroad because we've just had the best ...

MDA provider makes debut on ASX

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... executive chairman Don Sharp said that around 70% of the company's assets under administrations are held by self-managed super funds (SMSFs). Sharp said that investors see the company "as a unique way to gain exposure to the mandated growth of Australia's ...