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ASIC sounds the alarm on buy-now-pay-later

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
One in five users of buy-now-pay-later services are missing payments, as the industry almost doubles its lending, according to ASIC's latest review of the sector. The sector tallied up $43 million in revenue from missed payments in FY19, rising 38% ...

Insto demand sees digital asset manager launch

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
... its elegant construction remain intact." Adding to this, Morris said demand is unlikely to abate anytime soon. "This is a major sea change in an asset class once dismissed by many as a 'fad'. Investors are seeing its huge potential as a store of value ...

AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
... said. IFM Investors and Cbus are some organisations that have committed to the initiative. Gray said AustralianSuper has a major role to play in influencing and supporting the broad-based economic transition necessary to manage climate change. "This ...

Asset managers want action on modern-day slavery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
Asset management heavyweights are urging the nation's top 100 companies to take modern-day slavery and labour exploitation seriously by lifting the hood on their supply chains. The Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking (IAST) APAC, a newly-formed ...

COVID-19 spurs proactive investing: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Australians are the most anxious about the impact COVID-19 will have on their portfolios but are also among the most proactive investors, according to a global comparison. Calastone's survey of 1800 retail investors from Australia, UK, USA, Germany ...

Channel Capital in management buyout

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
The Sydney multi-boutique is bidding farewell to its minority equity partner Highbury Partnership, as it enlists a new passive investor to bring ownership back to the management. Highbury invested about $15 million in Channel Capital in 2017 when the ...

Super funds overlook digital engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
Superannuation funds are missing an opportunity to engage with younger members, who are increasingly becoming dissatisfied with their providers, via digital engagement. The inaugural Superannuation Stealth Survey conducted by SS&C Technologies Holdings ...

CountPlus divests member firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
CountPlus has disposed its majority interest in a member firm to a fellow member firm after a review found it could not add strategic value. The ASX-listed advice and accounting group has sold its 61.28% interest in Specialised Business Solutions to ...

New fixed income boutique launches

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... Fortlake Asset Management is offering four funds, across retail, wholesale and institutional. Alex Waislitz's Thorney is major shareholder, and he or Martin Casey will have a non-executive directorhip on the five-person board. "We are excited by ...

Majority of Aussies want SG rise: ASFA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Around 75% of Australians want the superannuation guarantee to rise to 12%, according to a survey commissioned by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA said 1375 Australians were surveyed in October by Utting Research about ...