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ACCC on financial services priorities

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2022
... as well as a payment method for scams more broadly. So far this year, more than $100 million has been reported lost to crypto investment scams. "This year we instituted proceedings against Facebook's parent company, Meta, for publishing scam advertisements ...

Volatile crypto markets need better regulation: CHOICE

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2022
... According to the latest data from CHOICE's national consumer survey, one in five Australians are involved or interested in crypto trading. CHOICE senior policy adviser Patrick Veyret said: "This number is rising amid aggressive marketing and promotion ...

New Ethereum ETF launches on Cboe Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2022
Cosmos Asset management has launched the Cosmos Purpose Ethereum Access (CPET) ETF to investors on Cboe Australia. The Cosmos fund feeds into the world's first ever Ethereum ETF - The Purpose Ether ETF. So, Australian investors who purchase CPET will ...

Just 14.8% of hedge fund leaders are female: Report

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
A report released by IG Prime shows only 14.8% of senior hedge fund management roles in Australia are going to women. Despite the low number, the research highlights the Australian market had higher performance in the past 12 months, and the past five ...

Superhero board signs former ASIC boss

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
Former ASIC chair James Shipton has joined the board of Superhero. The trading platform, which launched in September 2020, has close to 200,000 investors and rolled out zero brokerage US share trading as well as its flagship superannuation offering. ...

No place for crypto in insto portfolios: PGIM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... across PGIM's fixed income, equity, real estate, private debt and alternatives businesses looked at the most common pro-crypto arguments and found there is little benefit to be gained by an institutional investor. The research found crypto is an unreliable ...

State Street bags K2 Asset Management mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2022
... with State Street and other key stakeholders to deliver a sustainable solution in the increasingly important digital and crypto segment for investors." Likewise, State Street digital APAC product lead Irfan Ahmad said: "Demand for cryptocurrencies is ...

First crypto ETFs launch on Cboe Australia

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022
Finally, after several years of regulatory negotiation, ETF Securities and Cosmos Asset Management have launched cryptocurrency ETFs on Cboe Australia. In a statement, Cboe said ETFs are the first to offer Australian investors with direct, regulated ...

ETF Securities to win Australian crypto ETF race

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2022
... Securities said that prior to launch, Australians that wanted to buy bitcoin or ether had been forced onto unregulated crypto exchanges. But now, having brought cryptocurrency into ETF form, investors could now trade and own it in a tightly regulated ...

Senator Bragg defends domestic crypto ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
In a letter to ASIC, Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has welcomed foreign crypto ETF competition but not before domestic products have become widely available. Bragg asked the regulator to confirm it will not provide an uneven playing field for foreign ...