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Unlicensed crypto platforms robbing investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... afforded with the investor protections required of licensed providers," it warned investors. Many investors are buying and selling cryptocurrencies and ICOs on platforms that are not regulated. Investors are therefore not protected if the platform fails ...

Praemium improves non-custodial solution

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
... utilise this functionality for large volume data processing." Earlier this month, Praemium announced it's considering selling its international business. Praemium said the proposed divestment would also allow more focus on the Australian business.

OnePath to remediate over pressure selling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... intervention and action, OnePath was found to have sold life insurance over the phone between 2010 and 2016 using pressure selling tactics. These tactics included promoting a deferral of the first premium payment and using the cooling off period as an ...

AMP Capital GEFI sold to Macquarie

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
AMP is selling AMP Capital's Global Equities and Fixed Income business to Macquarie, with the division valued at $185 million. Under the sale, the global equities and fixed income capabilities will be combined with Macquarie's public investments ...

Westpac sells NZ life business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2021
... Zealand life insurance arm, finding a buyer in Fidelity Life Assurance, which is backed by NZ Super Fund. The institution is selling the life insurance division for NZ$400 million ($373 million) in addition to a 15-year agreement to distribute life insurance ...

UHNWs drive record luxury real estate demand

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
... Sydney, Perth and the Gold Coast, 2% in Brisbane and 1% in Melbourne by the end of 2021. Luxury properties in Australia are selling for more and they are selling faster than ever before, over the last year the average amount of time a luxury property ...

Licensee to acquire Sentry Group

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... responsibilities across the new business. "WTL has developed impressive risk management and advice creation processes, and a key selling point for us was that they actually have advisers at the helm," Newman said.

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... we're only days into the winter season, there is enough fuel for house price growth to be fired up again in the spring selling season by investors returning to the market, encouraged by low mortgage lending rates, three more months of savings and a strengthening ...

Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... Daily Telegraph telling the story about "a mouldy 1970s house with a leaky roof and rooms cordoned off with danger tape" selling for $1.68 million at a frantic auction attended by 16 bidders, with the buyers reportedly planning to spend another $300,000 ...

ASIC increases short selling surveillance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... watchdog outlined several areas that it will keep an eye on in the newly released Information Sheet 255 Activist short selling campaigns in Australia (INFO 255). ASIC wrote that short sellers must verify their information and must fact-check these against ...