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Financial Standard launches weekly podcast

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... podcast for financial advisers, investment managers and super fund trustees. In addition to discussing the week's biggest news, the podcast will feature interviews with industry thought leaders and wealth management experts as well as insights from ...

Economic recap: Week to September 24

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... time on, every dip in the equity markets - and more generally, risk-off moves - became one of the major go to excuses. Good news on the US economy and progress on vaccinations stirred taper talks. Bad news for the bulls and risk assets. That was until ...

Social media pump and dumps gain traction

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
... now primarily being done by using social media and online forums to create a sense of excitement in a stock or spread false news about a company's potential. Then shares are sold (dumped) at an artificially inflated price, leaving other shareholders ...

Stephen Jones changes tack on risk advice

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... the AFA's views and also those of its members. AFA general manager of policy and professionalism Phil Anderson said this news would be welcomed by advisers. "That sounds certainly like positive news for the adviser population and you are well progressed ...

Aussie fund management diversity improves: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... percentage of female fund managers in Australia. The increase over the past 12 months is the largest we've seen, so the good news is that if this rate of change continues, gender parity in Australia for fund management will come in just over 20 years." ...

Advisers embrace technology, lack budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
Financial advisers have dramatically relied on technology over the last 18 months yet are unwilling to increase their budget to improve the clients' digital experience, new research finds. The 2021 Netwealth AdviceTech Report found advisers spent ...

Investors demand credible climate information

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... investors are seeking climate information from annual reports or sustainability reports while nearly half are informed by news or company websites (37%). "We are all familiar with big institutional investors, superannuation funds and major banks calling ...

ASIC to watch member shunting to untested super products

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
ASIC says it will be watching that super funds don't force members of failing MySuper or Choice options to their other products that don't face a performance test. The first round of the Your Future, Your Super performance only test applied to 80 MySuper ...

Funds will have to guide members on SRM, LTRM

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
Can consumers, even informed ones, tell the difference between standard risk measure (SRM) and long-term risk measure (LTRM) labels? That's a question put to Chant West general manager Ian Fryer and Aware Super manager for actuarial practice Estelle ...

YFYS spurs half to change asset mix

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
Only half of superannuation funds will be prompted to change their investment profile as a result of the new Your Future, Your Super performance test, an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees survey shows. The poll, conducted at AIST's ...