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Hedge funds fall out of favour with instos: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... the number of separately managed accounts (SMAs) and funds they offer. On the artificial intelligence front, nearly three times as many hedge fund managers are using AI compared to last year (29% vs. 10%), the report noted. Similarly, 31% of hedge managers ...

More than half of advisers without association membership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... Register, 8105 advisers identify as members of the Financial Planning Association of Australia - almost three and a half times the number identifying with the Association of Financial Advisers. As the FPA and AFA are the dominant industry bodies, these ...

Fintechs in the money, gain confidence

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... report said. This confidence is further fuelled by the majority (70%) operating at the post-revenue stage and earning 2.25 times median revenue growth. Of the 151 Australian fintechs surveyed, about one quarter (23%) is dedicated to the wealth and investment ...

Industry fund, IRESS begin automated advice journey

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... about 60,000 members. Hall said the digital advice tool had been tested with consumers in Sydney's Martin Place about three times over the past 18 months.

Blockchain can power internal systems: Digital Asset

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... requirements of internal validation and constraints and controls and reconciliations is probably a factor of a 100 or 80 times great of a burden," Masters said. Masters cited a large, complex financial services organisation as an example. It would typically ...

Asset management business models need a rethink: panel

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... adopt new technologies given their historically slow uptake, Scholfield said asset managers would be forced to move with the times. "Similar to the banking community here, there's a lot of complacency in asset management," Scholfield said. "There ...

The rise of challenger banks in Australia: SIBOS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... 147 authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) which collectively hold $4.6 trillion in assets, around two-and-a-half times the size of the country's $1.8 trillion economy. The major banks hold approximately three-quarters or around $3.5 trillion ...

Digital advice engagement spikes for super members

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... superannuation fund members for live adviser support has doubled. The most active members are 64-year-olds who used the platform 40 times in the past six months, the report said, noting more members are also using live data from their superannuation ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... of production, inconsistency in supply from Australia has created opportunities for US sorghum in the market over recent times." While these articles are mainly centred on sorghum, the on-going trade spat between the US and China would keep all other ...

Post Royal Commission change is all talk: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... basis (in terms of financial services GDP and financial services population), Hong Kong's financial regulators are three times the size of Australia's," he said.