CleverSuper launches full service SMSF Solution

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New SMSF administration platform, CleverSuper, spearheaded by Custom Wealth Solutions principal Chris Appleyard, is aiming to build new market segments and increase the uptake of advice from SMSF investors by... Read more continue reading

Rubik completes acquisition of Visor Desktop

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Rubik Financial Limited, the ASX-listed provider of financial technology and software to over 200 financial sector clients, has announced the completion of its purchase of Visor Desktop financial planning software (formerly... Read more continue reading

Game On: William Blair uses Game Theory to Sharpen Portfolio Performance

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The world is more politically unstable today than it was during the Cold War and investors need to adopt new strategies to navigate it, according to Brian Singer, William Blair’s... Read more continue reading

New appointments at Tyndall AM

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Tyndall AM has made two appointments to further enhance the quality and breadth of its compliance, operations and services it provides to clients and investors. Suzanne Bentley has been appointed... Read more continue reading

Merger of AUI property fund approved by investors

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Investors in Australian Unity Investments’ (AUI) Second Industrial Trust (SIT) have voted in favour to merge with AUI’s Office Property Fund (OPF) at a meeting of investors in Melbourne on... Read more continue reading

SPAA: 500,000 ‘mum and dad’ funds can’t be wrong

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The ongoing strength of the self managed super fund (SMSF) sector was reconfirmed by the release of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) quarterly superannuation statistics for 31 March 2013.... Read more continue reading

Active term deposit strategies required in low interest rate environment

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Curve Securities has said the recent historic rate cut demonstrates the need for advisers to access higher term deposit rates than are simply available through most bank, building society and... Read more continue reading

Built for Boomers: Bendigo Wealth’s Income Fund

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People with a mortgage may be breathing a little easier as they see interest rates hit historic lows, but not everybody has a mortgage.  Those relying on income from investments... Read more continue reading

Rising number of online scams

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Reports of e-mail scams to the ATO have tripled to almost 11,000 compared to the same quarter of last year. Second Commissioner Geoff Leeper said the ATO is seeing an... Read more continue reading

Operational risk next hurdle for FoFA compliant financial advice

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Financial planning firms operating in-house portfolio construction functions face having to ‘FoFA-proof’ against looming operational risks embedded in the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) legislation. This is the view of... Read more continue reading