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Time to diversify global alts allocations: Telfer

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2023
Aside from being a great risk management strategy, allocating to international alternatives deals can garner positive long-term returns for local investors, UBS Asset Management country head Alison Telfer says. Speaking with Financial Standard, Telfer ...

ACCC publishes draft guidance on greenwashing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2023
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has outlined eight principles designed to combat greenwashing by businesses and protect consumers. The ACCC has published a draft guidance to address "concerning conduct" arising from a recent ...

abrdn's Jollie outlines next steps

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2023
... solutions, managed accounts, active ETFs, sustainable investment strategies and digital advice." Some people remain on the ground to support these functions. However, abrdn's Australian staff will now report to Ian Macdonald, APAC chief of staff ...

Ignition Advice appoints chief platform, technology officer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2023
... to working alongside a talented team and to transforming the way financial advice is delivered. "The team has created a ground-breaking platform that will meet the challenge of scaling our business to meet the global demand for our services," he said. ...

Super funds embrace offshore investment, internal teams

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2023
... able to consider offshore, but it's more important to have relationships with experts than the wrong person on the ground anywhere," he said.

Calastone, Schroders collaborate on tokenised investment vehicle

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
Calastone and Schroders are collaborating to explore the capabilities of a tokenised investment vehicle for variable capital companies. The collaborative endeavour seeks to manufacture and distribute tokenised investment vehicles via Calastone's Distributed ...

Advice regtech acquires TIQK assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2023
Regtech provider for financial advisers Fourth Line has acquired the intellectual property of defunct startup TIQK. The assets include artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology. Fourth Line chief executive Joel Ronchi said that ...

Cash rate hits 4.1%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... to emerge in official housing data, but it will take a further 12 months for this slowdown to be apparent in work on the ground, and the wider economy," he said. As for mortgage holders, Mortgage Choice figures show that most borrowers were sticking ...

ASIC chair calls out greenhushing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
Greenhushing - in which companies stop all voluntary disclosure of ESG information - is just another form of greenwashing, according to ASIC chair Joe Longo. In a public speech, Longo provided additional context to the market regulator's focus on ESG ...

SEC sues Binance, chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2023
... allegations to the contrary. Rather, the SEC's actions here appear to be in service of an effort to rush to claim jurisdictional ground from other regulators - and investors do not appear to be the SEC's priority. Because of our size and global name ...