Asgard and Macquarie voted best
Asgard and Macquarie have come out on top in this year’s Assirt/Wealth Insights Service Level Survey, voted by financial planners as the best platform provider and fund manager respectively.
In the category of master trusts/wraps, the Asgard eWrap received the most votes, Asgard Elements scored second place and the Macquarie Wrap came in at third.
As a fund manager, Macquarie was voted as providing the best service, Perpetual was second and third place went to Colonial First State.
The survey, which is in its 14th year, was conducted during April with more than 850 financial planners chosen at random.
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