Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 2901 - 2910 of 9473 results for "tech"

HESTA doubles down on climate action

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... suggested the government remove barriers to long-term investment and enable innovative partnerships and structures to boost Clean Tech investment. Blakey encouraged the Morrison government to take a leaf out of our Kiwi counterparts' book to encourage ...

Bezos adds billions

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... the United States and 15% of US existing home sales. His fortune is 2,944,647 times the median US household income. Other tech titans also enjoyed a surge driven partly by lockdown measures keeping people at home and helped by the boost given to markets ...

HUB24 wins out over Netwealth: Ord Minnett

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
Both platform businesses finished FY20 with strong inflows, but Netwealth is overvalued while HUB24 offers a superior growth rate, says Ord Minnett. HUB24 had $17.2 billion of total funds under administration for FY20 while Netwealth had $31.5 billion. ...

Mainstream funds under custody up 79%

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
Funds administration services provider Mainstream Group Holdings saw its funds under custody increase 79% during the June quarter, with net funds increasing by 36 compared to March 2020. Over the past 12 months, its funds under administration (FuA) ...

Billionaires targeted in Twitter bitcoin scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
Billionaires such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates were among the household names that had their Twitter accounts hacked to promote a bitcoin scam. The official Twitter accounts of many notable people, including former President Barrack Obama ...

Saxo Markets adds options to platform

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
Multi-asset trading and investment platform provider Saxo Markets has added exchange traded options to its platform, giving clients the ability to gain exposure to the ASX without having to purchase shares directly. Options allow investors to hedge ...

GMO acquires Japanese equity manager

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Global investment firm GMO has acquired a Japanese investment advisory firm and nabbed two senior executives from PGIM's quantitative investment manager QMA. GMO has acquired Usonian Investments, a value-orientated Japanese equity manager. "Usonian ...

Changes to advice incoming: Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... and I think it needs to be but there must be ways we can improve the system." Bragg said the government is looking at a "tech-neutrality" approach, discussing updating the Corporations Act to allow for more digitisation. "The Corporations Act was written ...

Growth outplays value: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... as a whole. Frontier said China exposure and industry biases had a major impact on manager performance with those high in tech and e-commerce among the best performers. Active management paid off for those managers investing to a growth style; however ...

Statewide overhauls risk management approach

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
Statewide Super has hit the refresh button on its approach to risk, prompted by COVID-19 and the Royal Commission. The funds recently appointed chief risk officer, Jason Muir said his goal is to refresh the industry fund's approach to risk in a post-COVID-19 ...