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- Australian digital wealth and advice platform InvestSMART (INV) has reported a 55.8 per cent growth in funds management fees in the December 2020 quarter
- Unfortunately, income from subscriptions of its Intelligent Investor and Eureka Report content declined by 3 per cent to $1.18 million due to a slight drop in subscribers
- The company says it will make growing this business area a focus moving forward
- Total income also declined by 1.3 per cent from the September quarter to $2.16 million, however InvestSMART expected this after the Federal Government ceased grandfathered commissions from January 1
- By the end of the quarter, InvestSMART had a healthy $4.7 million in cash
- Company shares are down 1.15 per cent, closing at 8.6 cents
InvestSMART (INV) has released its financial results for the December 2020 quarter.
InvestSMART is an Australian digital wealth and advice platform that helps clients achieve their financial goals through the use of exchange traded funds (ETF), under a low-cost investment model.
The company recorded a 55.8 per cent growth to $351,066 in funds management fees compared to the September quarter. This was generated from Professionally Managed Accounts (PMA) and ASX-listed ETFs.
Subscription income declined 3 per cent to $1.18 million, and, by the end of the quarter, InvestSMART has 10,073 subscribers to its Intelligent Investor and Eureka Report content driven products. The company claims the subscription area will be a focus moving forward.
Total income also declined by a slight 1.3 per cent from the September quarter to $2.16 million.
The business expected the 1.3 per cent drop however, as it transitions out of commissions income – fund managers and the superannuation component of commissions income – insurance, after the Treasury Laws Amendment put an end to grandfathered commissions on January 1 2021.
Pleasingly though, funds under management continued to grow during the quarter and reached $246.4 million — marking an 18.2 per cent increase on the prior quarter. This is due to net fund inflows into its three intelligent investor ASX-listed ETFs and InvestSMART Professionally Managed Accounts products from investors.
Additionally, its PMA platform continues to attract fund inflows with the total number of PMA accounts increasing by 16.5 per cent to 1045 accounts.
“We expect to see the company growing total revenue quarter on quarter as we continue to build funds under management in both our InvestSMART’s Professionally Managed Accounts and Intelligent Investor ETFs, following the industry wide cessation of grandfathered commissions income on January 1 2021,” Managing Director Ron Hodge said.
During the quarter, InvestSMART’s Exchange Traded Managed Fund, the Intelligent Investor Australian Equity Growth Fund, listed on the ASX under the ticker code “IIGF”.
IIGF raised a total of $33 million in its initial public offering in October.
The company ended the December quarter with $4.7 million in cash reserves.
Company shares are down 1.15 per cent, closing at 8.6 cents.
