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Acorns app enters superannuation sector

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Micro-investment savings app Acorns has entered into a partnership with the Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals to create a new Acorns-like app for superannuation contributions. As previously reported in Financial Standard, Acorns ...

Registrations for Adviser Big Day Out VICTAS closing soon

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
Registrations will soon close for the Victoria and Tasmania legs of the Advisers Big Day Out tour. The Advisers Big Day Out (ABDO) program is an independently conducted professional development Roadshow, designed to give financial advisers and planners ...

Global institutions join sustainable investment group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
A consortium of global financial institutions and investors has announced a new partnership under the Catalytic Finance Initiative (CFI) to direct $8bn towards "high-impact sustainable investments." The group of seven has pledged capital and expertise ...

Trio Capital compensation complete

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
The Government will not provide further compensation to two groups of SMSF investors affected by the collapsed Trio Capital. In a statement the government said that the two investor groups, made up of Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) trustees, were not ...

Data says not yet but what would Janet say?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
There's a kind of hush in financial markets as focus turned to the Fed's FOMC meeting which started overnight. While the Fed is not expected to alter monetary policy at all at this month's meeting, there's a niggling sense of anticipation of what Janet's ...

Tax incentives for early stage investors too narrow: KPMG

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
KPMG believes Treasury's policy consultation on tax incentives for early stage investors is unnecessarily restricted and argues unit trusts should also be eligible for the incentives. The firm's submission also raises concerns that investment into innovation ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
In case you missed it, finance and central bank head honchos of the Group of 20 (G-20) met over the weekend in Shanghai. But you may as well have (missed it, that is) for it was more of the same - promised-filled and action-short. In its communique ...

LIF expected before parliament this week

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The Life Insurance Framework is expected to be put to the House of Representatives by Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer this week. The government released exposure draft legislation in December 2015, based on the framework, which O'Dwyer said at the ...

ASX partners with US tech firm for new trade platform

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
The ASX has partnered with US firm Digital Asset to develop new post-trade platforms. In a statement, the exchange operator said this was part of its wider plans to upgrade all of its main trading platforms using distributed ledger technology, with ...

BGL joins DomaCom in fight for Kidman

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
Fractional property investment fund DomaCom has secured a new partner in its crowd-funding bid to acquire the Kidman Station pastoral holdings. BGL Corporate Solutions, a cloud-based SMSF administration solution, is backing DomaCom's Kidman Station ...