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Ignition Wealth expands leadership team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
Ignition Wealth, the Sydney-based robo-advice firm backed by industry magnate Barry Lambert, is expanding its leadership team with a key appointment to the investment committee. Simon Conroy, a senior investment and banking professional whose previous ...

Big tech leads fintech optimism

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... technology firms supplying critical technology to the sector, opening the door to direct competition at a later stage. It said robo-advisers provide an instructive example of incumbents responding to fintech. "Early innovators like Betterment and Wealthfront ...

Artificial intelligence provides adviser advantage

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
Artificial intelligence is reshaping wealth management and a digital infrastructure specialist believes financial advice practices will greatly benefit from implementing AI in the workplace. Dimension Data believes artificial intelligence is not just ...

Asset managers need more tech leaders in C-suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... director Sarah Hayward added: "For the managed funds segment, the scale and speed at which new technologies such as blockchain, robo-advice and machine learning are challenging business models makes adding technologists to strategic levels a corporate ...

Avoid the ETF trap: Bell Direct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
Online trading platform Bell Direct is warning investors to avoid the "ETF trap", as the move to passive strategies gains substantial pace and inflows reach all-time highs. Bell Direct chief executive Arnie Selvarajah said that for many investors passive ...

New Zealand advice industry to be overhauled

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... existing restrictions around advice needing to be provided by a human adviser. In turn, this allows for the provision of robo-advice and works to future-proof the legislation for technological developments. It also serves to increase the New Zealand ...

Nikko AM to disrupt with acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
Nikko Asset Management acquired a minority share in a New York-based specialist investment house with ambitions to develop more innovative investment solutions. As a stakeholder in ARK Investment Management, Nikko AM has obtained exclusivity to provide ...

Former Wallabies captain joins Stockspot

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... his sights. Stirling Mortlock, who led the Australian national rugby union side from 2006 to 2009, has teamed up with the robo-adviser and fund manager to consult on its new B2B partner strategy. Mortlock has about 10 years' experience in financial services ...

Digital revamp for Citi wealth arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2017
... degree of 'human touch' supported by a digital ecosystem; while emerging affluent clients will head toward using digital or robo-advice and will want to transact on their own. Citi is currently building 'total wealth access', a digital tool that allows ...

Adviser models replacing product focus with customers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... automated advice has been set high by regulators, he said, noting ASIC in the last 18 months had issued guidance on standards for robo-advice - which need to be accurate and consistent. For customer experience, this type of technology solution needs ...