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Financial planning

Portfolio administration provider Praemium has announced it will enter into the development effort for a set of standards that was jointly released last week by Coin and ...

Financial planning

The underlying structure of some platform products could impede the broad objective of the FPA’s conflict of interest principles which require advisers to stipulate what ...

Financial planning

AMP expects the focus of financial advice to shift as a result of the proposed changes to superannuation announced in this year’s Federal Budget, but has rejected suggest...

Funds management

Pentacle Property Funds Management has released two unlisted direct property fund of funds with unique features to address the liquidity concerns associated with the asse...

Financial planning

ASIC is currently examining whether further regulation is specifically needed for platforms, although at present it is unclear whether they should be defined as a product...

Financial planning

Financial planning software providers VisiPlan and Coin have jointly released a set of standards for use in the development of interfaces between platforms and front-end ...

Financial planning

AMP Capital Investors has made its first serious foray into the retail market with the launch of four open ended funds through its Private Clients channel....

Financial planning

Fund manager RCM has revealed the unique research process it believes gives it a distinct competitive advantage in researching and identifying the best investment opportu...

Financial planning

Commonwealth Bank/Colonial First State (CBA/CFS) has topped a list of “Super Star” performers in the platform space for 2005 based on research that considered a combinati...

Financial planning

BT Financial Group has been shown to be the most impressive performing business unit of Westpac for the half year ended March 31, 2006, contributing strongly to the banki...

Financial planning

According to one researcher, every Australian financial planner uses about 2.5 platforms in their practice. Platforms were originally set up to provide the back-office su...

Financial planning

There are many different ways of viewing the Australian funds industry. In broad terms, there’s the total funds market and within that, there is the retail, wholesale and...

Financial planning

Nothing much has changed in the platform market during the past 12 months. The bigger platforms have got bigger, and there has been some rationalisation at the bottom end...

Financial planning

No platform provider is now without the ‘baby’ or ‘lite’ version of the full service wrap. In most cases, these ‘lite’ platforms have attracted substantial inflows withou...

Financial planning

Mergers and acquisitions played less of a driving role in the sector’s growth this past year than at any time since the product started to take off in 19887, but this mar...

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