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SMSFs the new retail

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... who believes SMSFs are the new retail funds. "A lot of these SMSFs are finding their way to fund managers through managed funds or exchange traded funds (ETFs)... but as to whether anyone out there, especially the large players, have specifically gone ...

Managed funds have a place in SMSFs: Select

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
Managed funds have been losing ground to low-cost options, said one asset manager, leaving the sector with the difficult task of convincing investors looking for absolute return, that funds are a good idea. Speaking at the Self Managed Super Fund Professionals' ...

Move to horizontal integration for wraps

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... platform late last year. The platform allows customers to select the core offer, which costs 30 basis points for 11 managed funds or add features beyond that depending on specific needs and objectives. Asgard pitched the platform as suitable to advised ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available today

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... section when connected to wireless Internet. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and published in the print edition - are available on iPadA(R) in an ...

OneVue adds retail super to platform

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... was previously only possible through OneVue's range of separately managed accounts, as well as selected wholesale managed funds," said Mckeage. "What is unique about the ability to invest in these managed portfolios is that clients will have access to ...

A bullish view could be dangerous after Davos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... markets. I think people need to keep their eyes open," Barnett said. There has been some decline in popularity of managed funds due to low performance figures after last year, said Barnett, with the longer positions taken by managers limiting success ...

Electronic trading reduces risk for fund managers

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
Australia is now successfully processing electronically traded managed funds. Independent network provider Calastone made the announcement this morning following a local pilot program involving platforms, custodians and asset managers including Aberdeen ...

Australian Ethical Investment appoints executive director

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... growth and we are extending our penetration into the wholesale investor and financial planning market, across both managed funds and our superannuation product," a spokesperson for the firm told Financial Standard. "We want to enhance and extend our ...

Govt releases final issue of investment manager regime

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... interest in a publicly traded company, in taxable Australian property. The exemption will be restricted to foreign managed funds domiciled in countries that are recognised by Australia as engaging in effective exchange of information. "The IMR will provide ...

Omniwealth provides planning tools for independents

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... maintain their independence. The dealer group, which provides investment research and an approved product list of managed funds among its services, said the number of independent dealer groups in Australia is dwindling with those remaining independent ...