Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1051 - 1060 of 1541 results for "Connect"

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... presentation of the research report 'Competition in financial services'. Ergas was referring to online dating services that connect married people who are willing to commit adultery. The report argued that allowing and regulating crowdsourcing in Australian ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Agreement (FTA) with Australia will boost economic relations between the two countries and the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect will link China's two stock exchanges and open them to a wider range of investors. Looking beyond newspaper headlines, other ...

SelectingSuper CompareOnline enhances research depth

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
Rainmaker has dramatically enhanced the product research data depth available in its SelectingSuper CompareOnline SOA and superannuation comparison website. SelectingSuper CompareOnline is the web-based comparison system used by adviser groups, super ...

Link Group launches digital super card

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Link Group has launched a digital superannuation membership card designed for use on smartphones. The digital card is available to members immediately after they join online and it allows customers to access details of their super fund via their smartphone. ...

New Calastone service automates distribution processing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Global funds transaction network, Calastone, has launched its new automated distribution service, aimed at cutting out mistakes from manual input and shortening processing times. The distribution solution connects fund manager and client, standardising ...

Centrepoint in talks to build ex-insto advice network

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Financial Standard, the trend of larger licensees outside of the institutional model buying up aligned practices is growing. Connect Financial Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan argued that the recent headlines - including this one - are "just ...

Philanthropists donate $6.2m through Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... long-lasting community impact. The recipients of the grants are Berry Street Victoria ($765,430), Big hART ($784,000), Justice Connect ($960,000), National Stroke Foundation ($1,000,000), Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia ($100,000), The Smith ...

ASIC financial services enforcements down 10%

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
ASIC's actions against the financial services industry have decreased by 10% in the first half of 2015, from 90 in the previous six months to 81. Referencing the compensation programs underway at Macquarie and CBA, ASIC noted in its half-yearly enforcement ...

Industry fund sponsors Oprah tour

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... already featured in many Sunsuper social media posts and the fund is hinting there may be an opportunity to personally connect with the star. Sunsuper's executive general manager customer experience and insights, Teifi Whatley, said Oprah's philosophy ...

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... approach as contrarian and says that "to engage in contrarian investing you need to think independently and objectively, and connect the dots that others are not." As an example, she said that fixed income investment and consumer staple stocks could ...