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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Securitor is close to introducing several initiatives as part of its ongoing Tropicana project and overhauling its pricing methods including introducing a system to rewar...

After ending an exclusive distribution arrangement with BT Funds Management, one of the world’s largest investment managers, Putnam Investments, is set to make its presen...

ING has expanded its product team to fast track the development of planned new products based principally around its OneAnswer master trust offering....

The latest AMP Capital/Investment Trends SMSF Investor Report has revealed compliance is now clearly the number one challenge being faced by people running their own supe...

Fund managers have again been given the opportunity to give their frank but anonymous assessment on the research houses which so frequently determine how the financial se...

Days after it received the seal of approval from Standard & Poor’s, Macquarie Investment Management has formally launched its global private equity fund, which will go on...

Challenger is launching a global infrastructure fund designed for platforms next month....

Investment Data Technologies has completed its first step toward financial recovery with the sale of its data business unit to a joint venture organisation formed by bril...