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Incumbents can innovate or separate: AltFi Summit

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... financial services. They expect simplicity, transparency and immediate value - similar to what they demand from companies like Amazon and Kayak," Dash said. "To me it's the consumer rather than the fintech that's changing the way things work." Credible ...

SMSFs continue to break with tradition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... also observed. SMSF investors are now the fastest growing customer segment in direct international shares, with Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google remaining among their favourite stocks to trade. "Now part of Australians' daily lives, these shares offer ...

NAB launches super virtual assistant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... innovation Jonathan Davey said the proliferation of voice-activated, hands-free devices such as Siri and Google Home and Amazon's Alexa in the Australian market is reshaping consumer behaviour and expectations. "We live in a world that wants instant ...

SMSFs shifting focus for diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... diversification via less traditional, high growth sectors such as robotics and aerospace. Tencent, Tesla and Nvidia joined Amazon, Apple and Facebook as some of the most heavily traded international stocks last year by SMSFs. "International trading surged ...

International broker enters Aussie market

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Hong Kong and most of Asia. This means investors can take advantage of price movements in international stocks such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Toyota and other Asian listed companies. Investors can also access Chinese listed stocks including ...

Siri and Alexa: The future of banking?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... the proliferation of voice-activated, hands-free devices such as Siri and Google Home and the much anticipated release of Amazon's Alexa to the Australian market this year are reshaping consumer behaviour and expectations. "We live in a world that wants ...

Amazon still an early-stage company: Fundie

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... the view that every stock in the firm's disruptive innovation portfolio is an early-stage growth stock, and this includes Amazon - a firm approaching US$600 billion market capitalisation. "The way we know it's an early stage growth company is that only ...

Australia braces for Amazon impact

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
Amazon has finally launched in Australia and the retail sector is likely to experience significant hurdles - but Amazon itself will face its own challenges, according to financial services experts. Amazon Australia country manager Rocco Braeuniger said ...

Retailers should be wary of Amazon: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
The majority of people polled in Financial Standard's weekly survey believe the launch of Amazon Marketplace in Australia has potentially dire consequences for local retailers. One-in-four (25%) respondents strongly agree the e-commerce giant will negatively ...

Fund managers should have personal stake: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... the second highest total return, and the second lowest total volatility over 40 years. This week we ask if the launch of Amazon in Australia will negatively affect the local retail sector.