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Financial planning

11 Aug

Macquarie Wrap Solutions’ new low cost ‘Baby Wrap’ went live today, offering investors with as little as $2,000 entry to an administration platform that claims lower fees...

Financial planning

08 Aug

Funds industry gets a breather

The funds management industry was given a respite from lacklustre markets in the second quarter of 2003, stimulating an improvement in the net inflow position compared to...

Financial planning

07 Aug

BT expands Wrap Essentials menu

BT Financial Group has expanded the investment menu for its recently launched low-cost platform, Wrap Essentials, adding 12 new funds across value, growth and core styles...

Financial planning

05 Aug

Asgard to offer direct shares through E*Trade

Platform provider Asgard Capital Management has struck an alliance with E*Trade Australia to allow it to integrate an online share trading service within its wrap product...

Financial planning

01 Aug

Financial year may end in the black: Intech

Three consecutive months of positive returns for the Australian and international share sectors have given growth orientated funds some hope for a positive 2002/03 financ...

Financial planning

01 Aug

Search for growth leads to very different results

The fastest growing dealers are at the big end of town, but so are those with falling numbers. As Ben Abbott discovered, scale does not guarantee success....

Financial planning

01 Aug

Smaller banks muscle in on sub-advisory market

Europe’s smaller banks are scooping up an increasing proportion of the US$94 billion European managed fund sub-advisory market, which consists of funds managed by a singl...

Financial planning

01 Aug

Snowball to grow through capital raising

Listed financial planning group Snowball has announced a capital raising it says will enable the company to move more quickly towards becoming a profitable entity....

Financial planning

01 Aug

MLC boots reporting with InvestmentLink deal

MLC and electronic platform provider InvestmentLink have signed a deal that will enable the MLC group to widen its platform’s reporting capabilities to include products f...

Life/Risk

01 Aug

Insurance wins off the back of super

Superannuation insurance premiums accounted for the lion’s share of total life office revenue received during the March quarter 2003, according to the Australian Prudenti...