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Crypto exchange enters superannuation market

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... years, RBA head of payments policy Tony Richards said, adding it works with other central banks as well as interacts with big and small entities active in cryptocurrency. In March, it was reported complex cryptocurrency assets are driving financial advisers ...

HESTA appoints quant general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2018
... knowledge and experience in quantitative techniques that can enhance our investment process and is at the leading edge of big data innovations," she said. "He will help us to leverage large and varied data sets, use econometric and machine learning techniques ...

Financial services executives in the money

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
Following a highly successful IPO and 41% increase in funds under administration, the last 12 months has seen Netwealth's Michael and Matt Heine named among Australia's richest executives. Netwealth joint managing directors Michael and Matt Heine have ...

Robo-advice users in for the long haul

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
Young people are increasingly turning to robo-advice services for long-term goals like growing wealth outside of superannuation and saving for retirement, according to Six Park. Insights from the automated investment platform show 36.5% of its users ...

Financial services employees face ongoing stress at work

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... executive Lea Schodel says that in order to help others, advisers need to first focus on securing their own wellbeing. "I am big believer that in any profession where you are giving and helping others, you need to take care of yourself first," she says. ...

Chief economist update: Friday when the trade war began

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
Shots fired! Shots fired! The threat of a trade war became real on 6 July 2018, when at exactly 12:01 am (NY time), the US imposed a 25% tariff on US$34 billion of Chinese imports to which China immediately responded with a percent-for-percent and dollar-for-dollar ...

Chief economist update: Japan feels the heat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Who better to talk about trade than the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In its latest report the WTO put into perspective the goings-on in the on-going global war on trade. To wit: "A total of 39 new trade-restrictive measures were applied by G20 economies ...

Super fund chair appointed to NSW Generations Fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... that we not only address those challenges but articulate our roadmap for long-term economic success." The NSW Treasury is a big issuer of debt instruments through TCorp. TCorp issues debt instruments on behalf of the NSW government to finance the government ...

Trade-off needed on existing adviser standards: Fox

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
The former chief executive of the Association of Financial Advisers believes a practical trade-off is required in order for the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority to meet its "mutually exclusive" goals for increasing industry professionalism. ...

Macquarie axes grandfathered commissions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... by Macquarie and BTFG follows the condemnation of grandfathered arrangements by the Royal Commission earlier this year. The big banks and AMP copped widespread criticism for the practice - a legacy of the 2013 FoFA reforms - and ASIC, in its submission ...