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BlackRock Bitcoin ETF: A landmark institutional event?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2023
... take as much as 240 days for SEC approval. This timeline positions the potential regulatory stamp of approval between January and March 2024, interestingly coinciding with the next Bitcoin halving in April 2024. The Bitcoin halving is a pre-scheduled ...

Equity Trustees reviews UK, Ireland businesses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2023
... accordance with our continuous disclosure obligations," O'Brien said. Equity Trustees (UK & Europe) was established in January 2017. The fiduciary services provider then transferred its Irish funds business from London to Dublin in 2019, ahead of Brexit. ...

Super planning remains top adviser focus this EOFY: Podcast

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2023
... professional standards are also met. "If they (advisers) haven't yet met their education pathways, they have until January 2026 to do that. That's the last piece in the puzzle for professional standards for advisers," he said. "A lot of advisers ...

Director banned for eight years

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2023
... ASIC, a track record of incomplete and unsuccessful investment offerings, and misuse of Plazrok Investor Trust funds. In January, RES said Fox had handed over an asset valued at about $8.4 million to compensate the Plazrok Investor Trust investors in ...

Zurich fills newly created executive role

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2023
... visibility and focus to deliver improved experiences and efficiency for our individual and commercial customers." Since 1 January 2022, claims handling and settling has been a fully regulated activity and included in the definition of a 'financial service' ...

HNW population sees biggest decline in decade

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
... investments (other than digital assets) yielded restrained enthusiasm from risk-averse investors, we learned through out January 2023 HNWI survey," Capgemini said. When it comes to ESG, 40% of respondents said that their returns from ESG-linked assets ...

Australia-UK FTA a boon for local business

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... billion and FDI of $135 billion in 2021," the federal government said. The FTA also amends working holiday visas. From 31 January 2024, Australians up to the age of 35, up from 30, will be able to apply for working holidays in the UK and stay for a maximum ...

Adviser registration extended to October

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... employee or a director of a licensee's related body corporate. Advisers were originally required to register by 1 January 2023. However, last November ASIC delayed registration until 1 July 2023 to allow certain improvements to be made to the Stage ...

ASIC revokes Centurion subsidiary licence, suspends fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2023
... The AFS licence of Centurion Custodian Funds Management, a subsidiary of Centurion, has been cancelled effective from January 18. ASIC took this action because Centurion failed to provide any financial services under the licence since its issuance. Following ...

Experience pathway could create two adviser tiers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2023
... minimum of 10 years full-time equivalent experience as a financial adviser that does not need to be consecutive between 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2021. The individual must also have a clean disciplinary record as at 31 December 2021, and not been ...