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Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... not subject to regulation, there are also concerns about the lack of consumer protection on data privacy, information security, dispute resolution as well as fighting fraud and money laundering and regulation is needed to minimise these risks." Director ...

Lonsec launches investment solutions division

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... investment committees. The committee structure provides oversight to Lonsec's asset allocation decisions and fund manager and security selection process. A first priority of Lonsec Investment Solutions will be to look at ways to broaden its suite of ...

Senate hears too many holes for women in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... holes for women in Australia's current retirement savings system. Ahead of the Senate public hearing looking at economic security for women in retirement, Women In Super chair Cate Wood said a range of policy measures were needed to improve the gender ...

Long-term investment under the spotlight

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... manage agency issues; shift the basis of performance reporting; refocus executive remuneration incentives; enhance the security of funding; tweaking fund portability; and better industry guidance. Many of these ideas were raised in Warren's recent paper ...

S&P warns banks on cyber risk

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2015
Standard & Poor's has warned the global banking industry that it may soon factor cyber-security risk into its credit rating services. In a new report, the researcher and index provider highlighted the rising threat of cyber-attacks on banks, which it ...

Australian pre-retirees streets ahead of US

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... just 254,809 superannuants aged 50-54, or just over 17%, had no savings. The US-based National Institute on Retirement Security reported in July that Americans in almost every state won't meet their financial needs in retirement. The group estimated ...

Invast launches thematic model portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Australia has launched a number of model portfolios tackling themes such as the country's aging population, US cyber security and iconic Aussie brands. The portfolios will be listed in Invast's PortfolioInvestor platform, which currently has 30 investment ...

Australians are hardly retirement ready

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... three quarters of older workers across Australia are willing to stay in the workforce for longer and 61% cited financial security as the major reason older workers continue to keep working," she said.

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... country and the entrepreneurs have got that approach - to put a step forward and in many instances put their own financial security on the line," Dunn said. There is already demand for Australia's fintech start-ups to head overseas, particularly in the ...

BlackRock boosts iShares sales team

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... adviser. "He will be engaged across a broad range of investment disciplines including portfolio analysis and construction, security valuation, market structure, trading and execution," head of iShares Australia Jon Howie said. Alex Zaika joins iShares ...