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Kyckr to raise $10m, rich lister on board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
The ASX-listed regtech is raising $10 million to support international sales growth and product development, with existing investor and rich lister Richard White indicating support. Kyckr has received commitments for $8 million before costs via a new ...

Blame put on businesses for JobKeeper error

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... enrolled businesses of the likely number of eligible employees. "It was not picked up by the ATO earlier as their primary focus in the first fortnight of JobKeeper payments was on ensuring that JobKeeper payments were paid promptly to those eligible ...

Balanced funds fundamentally flawed

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... particularly damaging to those in or near retirement, and avoided by those investors that seek more absolute returns with a focus upon protecting wealth. For those nearing retirement, he recommends investors build an "all-weather" portfolio to protect ...

MLC launches new advice business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... Standard. "When we announced our strategic intent in 2019, we established a simpler operating model that would allow us to focus more on delivering for clients. This model included a new licensee business that could service a broad client base with different ...

Former UBS Wealth exec joins Centrepoint

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... team. "He brings a unique blend of capabilities and experience which are ideally suited to our business as we continue to focus on the growth opportunities presented in the market," Benbow said. "Brendon understands the drivers of value for adviser groups ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... about $4 billion currently on loan to 40-50 companies on its books. And it has increasingly nabbed the 17-strong team's focus away from fixed income, which is a shrinking part of IFM's debt portfolio and has become increasingly opportunistic. "We are ...

Count Financial makes growth-focused hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
Count Financial has hired an experienced practice development manager, whose resume features the likes of Affinia, Commonwealth Bank and AMP, to ramp up its growth strategy. Chris Burton has been appointed as Count's practice development manager, and ...

Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Although the last two months have been marked by increased volatility and disruption, small caps have largely outperformed. During March, small caps performed broadly in line with their larger counterparts, with the ASX Small Ordinaries Index dropping ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... to scare people away from the market." Investors had been looking through the short-term pain and dismal economic data to focus instead on support measures from governments and central banks to push equity markets higher, he said. "Our view is that weakness ...

US pension funds approach point of no return

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
A new report ranking US public pension funds by their ability to pay future benefits suggests several will likely go insolvent as a result of COVID-19. The issues facing public pension funds in the US are widely known, and while it's not clear how ...