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Fund manager injects $28m in Stockspot

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2023
... follows a $3 million cash injection from a group of investors that included Alium Capital and H2 Ventures and led by ETF Securities founder Graham Tuckwell in May. The consortium invested an initial $2.2 million in 2017. Stockspot founder and chief executive ...

Federated Hermes names international sales head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2023
... UK and Ireland. In his new role, Selman will operate under the leadership of Paul Uhlman, the president of Federated Securities Corp; he oversees global distribution. "Under Clive's leadership we will seek to scale our sales and business development ...

Active Super to face action over greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... February 2021 to 30 June 2023, Active Super "held 28 holdings, either directly or indirectly, which exposed members to securities it claimed to restrict." Some of the holdings included: Gambling : Skycity Entertainment Group Limited, PointsBet Holdings ...

Wall Street firms slugged $442m for recordkeeping breach

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
BNP Paribas Securities, Moelis & Company, and Wells Fargo are among 11 firms that copped massive fines that totalled US$289 million ($442m) after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found that they used personal apps to conduct business. From ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2023
... "made false and misleading statements and engaged in conduct liable to mislead the public in representing that all securities in the Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index Fund (Hedged) (Fund) were screened against certain ESG criteria." ...

HUB24 unveils new data feeds

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2023
... enabling financial advisers to report on clients' other investments including cash accounts and term deposits, listed securities, managed funds, direct property, and other assets. HUB24 chief product and innovation officer Craig Apps said the new features ...

State Street brings Fund Connect ETF Portal to Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2023
... from economies of scale." Prior to October 2021, the Fund Connect platform was only available to issuers receiving securities services from State Street. It has been part of State Street's offering for close to two decades now.

AAC at centre of billionaire insider trading scheme

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2023
... orchestrating a "brazen insider trading scheme." Lewis, founder of investment firm Tavistock Group, is facing 16 counts of securities fraud and three counts of conspiracy. Federal prosecutors have alleged that, between 2013 and 2021, the 86-year-old ...

ASIC sues Vanguard for greenwash in bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
... "made false and misleading statements and engaged in conduct liable to mislead the public in representing that all securities in the Vanguard Ethically Conscious Global Aggregate Bond Index Fund (Hedged) (Fund) were screened against certain ESG criteria." ...

Wealth management ecosystem at critical inflection point: Citi

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2023
... onboarding, client services, reporting and data, and compliance, regulatory and tax reporting. Citi global head of securities services Okan Pekin commented: "The emergence of new technologies demands for a native digital client experience and the largest ...