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Iress partners with regtech for DDO

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... its blockchain technology for its design and distribution obligations (DDO) solution. The integration will allow product issuers to publish Target Market Determinations (TMDs) created through Objective's Keystone software directly into the blockchain. ...

FSC proposes new advice model

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... advice model that is consistent with the new Design and Distribution Obligations (DDO), which requires financial product issuers to know whether their consumers fall within the target market of their products. The alternate model in line with the DDO ...

Amundi revamps climate fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... Investing- Green Bonds, is the first fund to be fully aligned with the transition to reduce the carbon footprint and to support issuers with their transition. The fund will select corporate bonds from the Bloomberg Barclays Euro Aggregate Corporate index ...

Morningstar releases DDO solution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... describe a Target Market Determination (TMD)," Morningstar said. "Striving for common data standards and templates across issuers will allow distributors to systematise their monitoring and reporting obligations under DDO." Morningstar has been gathering ...

BetaShares eyes expansion with new shareholder

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... organic growth in ETFs which are about to hit $100 billion, and inorganic growth opportunities in fintechs and other product issuers. "There are two components to our growth plan. First and foremost is organic growth. Our business is growing very strongly. ...

Iress to deliver DDO solution

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... Product design and distribution obligations aims to help consumers obtain appropriate financial products by requiring issuers and distributors to have a "consumer-centric approach" to the design and distribution of products. Product issuers must design ...

Banks return $1.2bn for bad advice

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... findings describing systemic failures in the advice divisions of AMP, ANZ, CBA and NAB, as well as some of their product issuers. It said these included the failure to ensure provision of ongoing advice services to customers who paid fees to receive ...

BlackRock reinforces commitment to ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
... scrutiny" in active portfolios as a framework for managing securities that pose significant climate risk. "We expect the issuers we invest in on our clients' behalf to be adequately managing the global transition towards a net zero economy," Fink said. ...

ETF industry approaches $100bn

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... BetaShares and iShares received 70% of the industry's flow with both BetaShares and Vanguard becoming the first Australian ETF issuers to record more than $5 billion of annual net flows. International equities received the highest level of flows at around ...

ETF industry revenues revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... September, followed by VanEck ($17.1 million), State Street ($15.1 million) and ETF Securities ($10.1 million). Many ETF issuers have businesses and revenue streams outside of ASX listed ETFs, for example via unlisted managed funds. "Examination of revenue ...