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Industry fund makes tech play to combat unpaid super

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... superannuation fund, with more than $120 billion under management, is hoping to tackle the problem of unpaid super with a mobile application upgrade. The AustralianSuper app, which first launched in 2015, will allow members to receive alerts so they ...

easyMarkets launches SMSF tool, appoints MD

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... extended its deal Cancellation feature - which allows traders to cancel a losing trade within one hour - to the platform's mobile app. Alongside the product launch, easyMarkets also appointed Daniel Byrne to replace outgoing Robert Francis as manager ...

Fintechs pose disintermediation threat: CFA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
The latest CFA Institute report shows fintechs specialising in blockchain, robo-advice, mobile payments and peer-to-peer lending have the highest potential to disintermediate the financial services industry. CFA Society Sydney president Anthony Serhan ...

Transport bolsters listed infrastructure demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... whitepaper noted, adding the high degree of structural rather than cyclical growth of renewable energy, airport passengers and mobile towers helped strengthen the sector. Meyer highlighted US telecommunication infrastructure is particularly attractive ...

BTFG upgrades Panorama app

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... anywhere, and is reflected in the 87% increase in log-ins to the app in the year to May 2017. Shuttleworth said demand for mobile functionality is simply a reality of the world BTFG operates in. "The key to give advisers the best possible mobile experience ...

Finance braces for Amazon effect

EMMA RAPAPORT AND DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... transactions. "If the financial services sector is going to catch up they need to implement solutions far more quickly. A fantastic mobile app which takes three years to build isn't going to hack it with Amazon on the scene," Copeland says. He remarks ...

Millennials choosing stock market over housing market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... decisions," CommSec managing director Paul Rayson said. Not surprisingly, millennials are also big users of the CommSec mobile app, making up to 50% of all mobile trades actioned. "Technology has made it easier for us to support new investors with online ...

Advisers must prepare for the next generation of clients

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... want to take more control of their financial futures and technology is facilitating access to non-traditional, on-demand, mobile friendly financial products," Daniel said. "For example, BrickX, which gives clients access to fractional ownership of property ...

Distribution reshapes globalisation: Capital Group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... it's really knowledge intensive stuff," Budden said. He said a good case study is telecommunications. The emergence of mobile means some countries have leapfrogged landlines and gone straight to mobiles. "Mobile banking services in Africa are already ...

Super funds must do more digitally

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... members, and overwhelmingly the response was 'absolutely, it's a must'. But any digital solution must also be compliant, mobile responsive and easily integrated," Decimal senior solutions consultant Mitch Ison said. "Also, in terms of the conversations ...