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VC sector risks running cold

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... capital space, for reasons good and bad. While celebrities like tennis star Serena Williams are showing enthusiasm, rising interest rates have caused some to question the sector's outlook. Last year, super funds, family offices, private equity, and ...

Ethical ETF popularity soars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... constituting nearly half, according to BetaShares responsible investments director Greg Liddell. "What we're seeing is more interest in those products and seeing quite significant cashflows," Liddell said. "We now have nearly $4 billion in our ethical ...

Still work to do on QAR: Levy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... saying 'this is a disaster." She explained the bottom line as to why it was labeled as such was down to the best interest duty in the Corporations Act being removed and replaced by a good advice duty. "In my view, that's a very strong consumer ...

Current legislation "wrong way around": Levy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2022
... in the law, an obligation to give good advice. It's a big shift because the current law very much focuses on best interest duty, duty of priority for that process," she said. Levy said she has had a lot of discussions around the current "checklists". ...

AFA Thrive Conference kicks off

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2022
... Williams. Ross added: "We always remain conscious and respectful of the association's past, seven decades of serving the interest of Australians and making sure that great advice is available to more and more members of our community, we really do ...

HarbourVest Partners opens doors to Sydney office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2022
... establishment of a local Australian presence reflects the significant growth of this region as well as the increased interest in the alternative assets classes we observe among investors in Australia and New Zealand." He added that the firm is at an ...

Research explores advice industry's maturation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2022
... Neilson said. He said that the introduction of mandated ethical codes and legal requirements to act in the client's best interest had a large impact on the progress towards professional recognition. Interestingly, the obligation to act in clients' best ...

Dixon Advisory pays $7m for poor advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2022
... reflect client circumstances − or advice models that lead to one-size-fits-all outcomes - are less likely to meet best interest duty obligations and can expose clients to a risk of capital loss." Dixon Advisory is currently in voluntary administration ...

American Century appoints local distribution heads

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2022
... long seen the APAC region as an important market in our growth strategy and in the past few years have seen increasing interest across our boutiques, particularly in our actively managed equity and fixed income offerings."

Inconsistencies across RIC strategies: Mercer

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2022
Mercer analysis of publicly available retirement income strategy summaries shows a great disparity between super funds' approaches. Under the requirements of the Retirement Income Covenant, trustees set out how they'll help members with their retirement ...