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myprosperity launches new platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2021
Financial services platform myprosperity launched its latest technology offering for financial advisers. The service is called Rooms and aims to create a collaborative, fully digital service where households and businesses can connect with financial ...

Economic recap: Week to October 8

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
... This, in turn, released consumers' pent-up demand, placing pressure on factories to increase production to satisfy household needs and wants - from computer chips to pasta to (more) toilet paper. Manufacturers need raw materials to manufacture these ...

Economic recap: Week to October 1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 OCT 2021
... Quarantined consumers' pent-up demand were suddenly let loose. Factories are now humming to satisfy the rebound in household spending. This has spurred sharp increases in commodity prices from aluminium, to oil, to copper. The S&P/GSCI commodity ...

JPMorgan Chase acquires financial planning platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
JPMorgan Chase is set to acquire a financial planning platform focused on the needs of college students and their families. The platform, Frank, currently serves more than five million students at over 6000 institutions across the US. It caters to those ...

Recovery set to slow: OECD

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
... higher virus transmission. An acceleration in vaccine rollout could enable a faster reopening and a rapid pick-up of household consumption, given the stock of excess savings," the OECD said. "On the other hand, were significant COVID-19 outbreaks to ...

One in four Aussies have no super account

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... their risk profile, compared to 23% of women. There is also a disparity in risk profile along socioeconomic lines. Lower household income earners are less likely to invest in a high-risk profile, with only 3% reporting that they do, as opposed to 16% ...

Crypto platform hires former Spaceship growth lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... pivotal in us shifting gears. What these three have in common is a track record of growing consumer fintech brands into household names through clever and extremely effective marketing efforts." Bamboo is looking to launch an SMSF product soon and is ...

ASIC red tape unit welcomed

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
The government has welcomed the corporate regulator's plan to establish a unit with the sole aim of reducing regulatory costs for businesses and consumers. The red tape unit will be responsible for identifying and implementing changes to how ASIC administers ...

Future Fund boasts 22.2% returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021
... board chair Peter Costello commented: "COVID-19 has accelerated many significant changes in the nature of work and in household use of technology." "It has heightened pre-existing tensions between global powers. It has led to more extreme forms of monetary ...

Economic recap: Week to August 13

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
... vs a year ago (-1.9% to 91.9), the economic conditions in the next 5 years (-1.2% to 109.2), and time to buy a major household item (-7.2% to 112.0). And consistent with the NAB's employment conditions findings, unemployment expectations jumped sharply ...