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ETFs trump active managed funds in core portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
Financial advisers are helping drive the shift to passive funds as they choose exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over active, unlisted managed funds as a core building block in clients' portfolios. According to Investment Trends head of research Irene Guiamatsia ...

Insignia Financial overhauls operating model, executive team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
Just a day after denying it has engaged Citi to consider takeover offers, Insignia Financial has overhauled its entire operating model and executive lineup. Insignia Financial is moving away from its current functional operating model and introducing ...

Government lifts funding to preserve banking in the Pacific

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024
The government will inject an additional $6.3 million to curb the rapid withdrawal of banking services in the Pacific. The funding includes $2.9 million to the World Bank for developing digital identity infrastructure across Pacific Island countries ...

New lending for property investors up 30%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
New housing lending unexpectedly fell in May, declining by 1.7% for the month. Lending to owner-occupiers and to investors both fell in the month but remain well above levels seen this time last year. In fact, new lending to investors has been very ...

Adviser permanently banned for faking qualifications

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
A Western Australian financial adviser was permanently banned after he lied to his employer and clients about having passed the Financial Adviser Exam. Dashiel Benjo Vee, also known as Dash Vee, is banned from providing financial services, controlling ...

The investment managers winning the biggest mandates

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Some investment managers still scored large mandates despite an overall nosedive in appointments by not-for-profit super funds. Alphinity, which manages $31.39 billion of Australian-sourced funds, was awarded a $2.92 billion international equites mandate ...

DigitalX to launch Bitcoin ETF on ASX

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Digital asset funds management firm DigitalX will launch a Bitcoin ETF on the ASX this Friday. DigitalX said that its Bitcoin ETF (ASX: BTXX) will provide a simple, liquid, and regulated structure for investors to gain exposure to the emerging digital ...

Spaceship returns 19.41% to super members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Spaceship's superannuation offerings have delivered some of the best results seen so far, with its flagship product returning almost 20% while the other achieved close to 17%. The GrowthX investment option, first launched in January 2017, returned 19.41% ...

Job mobility falls for first time in three years

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
Australia's job mobility rate has fallen for the first time in three years, back to around its pre-pandemic level, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ABS head of labour statistics Bjorn Jarvis said in the 12 months ...

Advisers encouraged to embrace AI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024
The Investment Trends Adviser Technology Needs Report found financial advisers are showing a strong demand for better technology integration as they look to consolidate their tech stacks. Interestingly, the survey found the adoption of artificial intelligence ...