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Advice industry must think bigger: Netwealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
Australia's financial advice industry should pay heed to the likes of Facebook, Google and Uber if it is to meet the evolving expectations of clients. Speaking at the inaugural IMAP InvestTech conference in Sydney today, netwealth joint managing director ...

Xero founder sells $94.5m in shares to fund philanthropy

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... widely-publicised sale of approximately 1.1 million shares by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel back in April. Thiel, who became Facebook's first outside investor in 2004, broke rank with the majority of Silicon Valley by supporting Donald Trump during the ...

Cyber training is advice value-add: AUSTRAC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... and studied technology and understands systems - it could be that person sitting on the bus next to you looking at your Facebook, it could even be family member or relative," Saxena said. He believes superannuation is one area ready to be highly targeted ...

FS Live Blog: 2017 AFA National Adviser Conference

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... Jeremiah Desmarais discusses content marketing and how to boost client engagement via email. He also recommends LinkedIn and Facebook as platforms for marketing. 1.15pm - The last round of focus sessions. Financial advice experts Annick Donat and Eleanor ...

NAB launches customer chatbot app

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... innovation Jonathan Davey said. NAB recently launched a virtual banker chatbot for business customers and chatbot pilot for Facebook called NAB Chatterbox. The bank said it is continuing to experiment with virtual assistants to provide real-time service ...

BigTech: The next frontier for high-net-worth investors

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
High-net-worth individuals could soon turn to Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook for wealth management needs according to latest research from Capgemini. In its 2017 World Wealth Report the consulting firm found BigTech is casting a long shadow in wealth ...

Nothing to fear from robo-advice: Magellan

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... manage money," he said. Speaking to his current investment thinking, Douglass sees value in stocks such as Google, Apple, Facebook and eBay because these companies have competitive scale advantages that will be tough to break down. Google's self-driving ...

Young Aussies driving sharemarket

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... unsurprisingly, international tech and e-commerce stocks proved most popular across all demographics with Apple, Tesla, Facebook, Tencent, Amazon, Snap and Alibaba among the top picks. "International shares offer a great diversification opportunity for ...

Global disruption fund locks in former CEOs

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... $150 million for the soon to be ASX-listed Global Disruption Fund. The initial portfolio is expected to include Amazon, Facebook, Alibaba, Netflix, Apple, Microsoft and Visa. The fund will also invest in a selection of smaller companies that have the ...

Distribution reshapes globalisation: Capital Group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... consumer and the sheer power they can create. Using social media as an example, the portfolio manager highlights how Facebook has created a community or population which is on the scale of some of the largest countries in the world. "Yet these [social ...