There's a lot at stake as the managed accounts industry moves into a year of consolidation and reforms post-Royal Commission. Here are five new developments that could reshape the industry in 2019. The MA universe will expand With shorter product ... Read more

There are five areas of improvement that financial advisers who offer managed accounts should be watching closely in 2019. Most, if not all, managed accounts providers are probably eager to see the end of 2018. While they have been chugging along okay ... Read more

There is nothing more brutal than receiving bad news on the eve of a long weekend. Worse, they were sent by email. The sudden shutdown of Dover Financial Group was still - by industry standards - a dramatic arc unseen in recent financial services history. ... Read more

In property, it's all about location. In managed accounts, it's all about conviction. High conviction, to be more precise. Our top story on Financial Standard yesterday was about a start-up super fund called Spaceship that found itself at the ... Read more

How do you look after investors in a world where superintelligence becomes the norm? Machine learning and managed accounts. With most discussions still revolving around the barriers to offering global equities managed accounts; latency issues when using ... Read more

From Amazon to the Royal Commission, time is running out for the industry's resident slackers, pretenders and Flat Earthers. You know it's true. For every financial planning business out there that is striving to innovate, a dozen others are happy to ... Read more

When I reflect on where the financial advice industry is heading, I can't help but recall the speech given by Greg Whitwell, dean of the University of Sydney Business School, at the annual Alumni Dinner in August. In it he spoke of the high expectations ... Read more

There's a very important cohort of investors who are, for now, relatively silent in the managed accounts debate. This is a big shame given they've got the most to learn - and gain - from the managed accounts insights released by Rainmaker research last ... Read more

I asked a financial adviser a few weeks ago what compels him to use managed accounts, given it's not the most popular choice among his peers. He said it took a recession a couple of decades ago for him to realise that the system he had in place wouldn't ... Read more

Something interesting is bubbling along in the world of regulation. Two weeks ago, ASIC announced it will host a 'hackathon' later this year to find tech solutions for the financial services industry's regulatory problem. It has launched an innovation ... Read more