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Lonsec acquires Implemented Portfolios

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022
Lonsec is expanding its market reach with the acquisition of specialist MDA provider Implemented Portfolios (IPL). The acquisition will increase the firm's offering of complementary managed account solutions to financial advisers, whether it be separately ...

Managed accounts FUM at $131bn

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
Strong inflows and solid market performance underpinned significant growth in the managed accounts sector, according to the latest data released by Institute of Managed Account Professionals (IMAP) and Milliman. As at 31 December 2021, funds under management ...

Conflicts of interest risk in funds management still high: ASIC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
Financial advisers who are vertically integrated or have a financial relationship with fund managers pose a potential risk for conflicts of interest, particularly in relation to costs and managed accounts, new research shows. New research conducted ...

Xplore Wealth outlines 2020 plans

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... In the third quarter, Xplore will launch a Third Party MDA administration solution, which will offer advisers an MDA provider licence and upgraded investment modelling tools. In the second-half of the calendar year, the platform will launch direct retail ...

Results of ASIC MDA review imminent

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2019
... "One of the concerns about the development of managed account services, including those where the advice licensee is MDA provider or acts as portfolio manager in another form of managed account has been the extent to which they give rise to conflicts ...

FASEA ethics pose risk to managed accounts

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... houses." The letter explained the obligations of the issuer of a managed account, either a responsible entity or MDA Provider, in ensuring the portfolios are managed properly and the creation of portfolio management teams and investment committees. Potter ...

Beware adviser conflicts of interest: Lonsec

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
Managed accounts have the potential to create significant conflicts of interest and conflicted remuneration for advisers. According to Rainmaker data, 29% of the investment platform market in Australia is in managed accounts already and that number ...

AMP MDA constraints frustrate advisers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... at the time: "MDAs create particular risks for retail clients because when a client enters into a contract with an MDA provider, they give the provider authority to make investment decisions on their behalf on an ongoing basis without seeking the client's ...

ASIC approves AMP for MDAs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
ASIC granted AMP Financial Planning approval to deal in managed discretionary accounts. ASIC said it imposed additional license conditions on AMP Financial Planning as a result of approving AMPFP's application to vary its license to provide MDAs. ...

Limited MDA deadline closes in

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... information paper deals primarily with the licensing requirements if the path chosen by a licensee is to apply to become an MDA provider. When ASIC updated the MDA class order in September last year, one of the changes was to provide a sunset arrangement ...
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