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CFS lifestage funds enter direct infrastructure

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
Colonial First State's lifestage funds have reached sufficient scale to invest in direct infrastructure assets for the first time. MySuper FirstChoice Lifestage superannuation products, which hold more than $8 billion in assets and traditionally invested ...

Aussie fintech usage surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
The rate Australia is adopting fintech services has almost tripled in the last 18 months, making it one of the top countries in the world with a sizable demand for new financial services technology. Australia's uptake rate (37%) sat above the global ...

AMP introduces facial recognition for mobile clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
Users of AMP's wealth management apps can now log-in via facial recognition. Facial recognition identification enhances the experience of using the Bett3r and My AMP apps, according to AMP's director of digital and design, Michael Weeding. "The apps ...

Pinnacle flags partnerships and LICs in growth plan

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Pinnacle outlined its medium-term growth plan at a Wilsons Advisory conference today, flagging partnerships with new boutiques and launching new listed vehicles. Pinnacle chair Alan Watson and managing director Ian Macoun explained the business has ...

The PI risks of goals-based advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Financial advisers making the switch to goals-based advice must ensure they are adequately covered with professional indemnity insurance. That was the warning heeded by delegates at the inaugural Association of Goals Based Advice conference in Sydney ...

For Stanford Brown, life begins at 30

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
Sydney-based financial planning group Stanford Brown doesn't do things by halves. On the eve of its 30th anniversary, it announced a string of initiatives that sets it apart from traditional advice businesses. Last month Stanford Brown marked its 30 ...

Westpac Group results solid despite challenges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
Westpac Group chief executive Brian Hartzer welcomed a solid full-year result for the group, driven in part by the $4 billion added to BT Financial Group's Panorama platform. Westpac reported a statutory net profit of $7.9 billion - up 7% year on year ...

FinPal integrates broking capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
FinPal will add functionality for mortgage brokers to its software to accommodate for the increasing overlap of broking with financial advice. The next release of the FinPal software will seek to bridge the gap created by advisers and brokers using ...

Quant manager ties momentum with machine

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
A global quantitative investment manager has turned the clock to re-evaluate its momentum strategies, using expertise in machine learning to build better alpha-capturing trading systems. In his recent trip to Australia, Man AHL chief scientist Anthony ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Machine learning is transforming the way financial services operates, as a growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial ...