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Digital engagement boosts investing demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... seamless user experience or building a vibrant online community," Peker said. Half of the participants are familiar with robo-advice, but it's the voice-activated smart speakers such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa that are gaining prominence. Many ...

AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... asset management business. This includes portfolio management and dealing and execution - perhaps reflecting the rise of the robo-adviser and more automated dealing and trading infrastructure, the report said. The survey also asked what diversification ...

Perfect storm smashes AMP

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... access AMP's advice capabilities through digital tools, instead of face-to-face advice, but hesitated to call the solution robo-advice. "While I see in the local market the large players - based on the market dislocation that is happening - basically ...

OPINION: Post RC, where to now for retail super?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... be reviewing their superannuation value propositions. In response we should see electrified activity in managed accounts, robo-advice and anything digital. The decision by several big wealth groups to divest their distribution has thus been vindicated. ...

Robo-adviser launches high interest savings solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
A robo-adviser and fund manager is launching a savings option that would see money invested in a high-interest cash exchange-traded fund. Stockspot is offering Stockspot Savings, giving clients access to competitive interest rates and leveraging the ...

Asset manager consolidation top of mind for HNWIs

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018
... complex conflict of interest challenges for advisers." "Senior leaders acknowledged recently in the Royal Commission that robo-advice services, with hardened process orchestration, may be necessary to ensure increasingly strict regulatory compliance ...

Vale Paul Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... within our organisation." Most recently he was a board director at Qantas Super and an investment advisory committee member at robo-adviser Six Park. Qantas Super chair Anne Ward said the fund's 32,000 members lost a fierce advocate. He was appointed ...

Robo-advice register launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Adviser Ratings has launched a new website that compares a multitude of robo-advisers in the market. The Robo Adviser (Smart Tools) register profiles 36 financial management fintech solutions sold directly to consumers that provide budgeting, trading ...

ETFs attracting more money than LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
Aussie investors now have more money invested in the rapidly-expanding exchange traded fund market than in long-standing listed investment companies. The ETP market has just hit $42.3 billion in funds under management - that's $60 million more than ...

ASIC hires former super executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... and before that was chief executive of Equipsuper from 2010 to 2016. Press became the first female director on the board of robo-adviser Six Park in July. She held various senior roles at UBS Global Asset Management for about 17 years, including deputy ...