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Industry innovation is not coming from within: Sharp

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
InPayTech executive chairman and financial services stalwart Don Sharp is calling out regulatory challenges faced by Australian fintechs and is encouraging the federal government to take a long-term view on disruptive industry legislation. The comments ...

ME makes peak appointment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
ME, the bank owned by 30 industry super funds, has appointed a former lawyer and accomplished mountaineer to its board. Cheryl Bart's board appointment was effective from 1 July. ME described the former lawyer, who started her career in the banking ...

Flinders fund added to Macquarie Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUL 2016
Flinders Investment Partners has had its Australian emerging companies fund approved for inclusion on the Investment and Super Manager/Consolidator menus on Macquarie Wrap. Founded almost a year ago by Andrew Mouchacca and Richard Macdougall, Flinders ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
Australia new home sales The Housing Industry Association reported that sales of new homes fell by 4.4% to 7,278 units in the month of May following a 4.7% decline in the previous month. Sales of detached homes continued to contract - down by 6.7% in ...

PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
By his own admission, Colin Kelton barely understood what Vanguard did when he applied for a job at the company. But 25 years on he's now principal and managing director of the Australian operations of the $4.4 trillion asset manager, and he can't imagine ...

Charter Hall launches second automotive trust

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
Property group Charter Hall has launched a second Direct Automotive Trust through the acquisition of four car dealerships spanning Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, and valued at $82 million. Charter Hall is seeking to raise $48 million in equity ...

Decimal makes international debut

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... enterprise grade robo-advice platform to international banks and financial services companies. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the unnamed firm, allows Decimal to "immediately enhance its sales and delivery capabilities" in Australia and overseas. ...

Majority of family offices move to direct investing: FOX

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
Over two thirds of US family offices (69%) are currently engaging in direct investing, according to the 2016 Family Office Exchange Global Investment Survey. The report also found that the tendency to invest directly was more common in family offices ...

Affluence launches new fee model to help investors and charity

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
Affluence Funds Management has adopted a unique fee structure that charges no fee unless it makes a positive return and donates 10% of any performance fees it receives to charity. Daryl Wilson who founded Affluence in 2015 after a successful career ...

Adequacy benchmark to help define super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia believes one of the keys in defining super's purpose will be including an adequacy benchmark. Garcia admits an adequacy benchmark will be "devilishly hard to define" but ...