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Stake offers $0 ASX brokerage

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
Investment platform Stake will offer its users $0 brokerage on ASX trades, but only if they refer other users. For each person a customer refers, their brokerage drops by $1 for one year. With brokerage currently at $3, three referrals can get customers ...

Education reforms are promising: SAFAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... submission to the federal government's proposal to reset education standards, the SAFAA wrote that the move will "not roll back or lower education standards" for financial advisers. The SAFAA slammed the now-defunct Financial Adviser Standards and ...

Fin365 to launch hybrid advice platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
Fin365 is planning to launch a robo-advice platform, having acquired miPlan as part of its strategy. miPlan is a privately-owned, self-licensed robo-advice platform for individuals, retirees and small businesses. The acquisition aligns with Fin365's ...

Digital advice predicted to soar in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
Asset managers and superannuation funds will ramp up their digital advice offerings in 2022 as the reality of financial advisers exiting sets in. Technology firm Finura predicts the wealth management and super sectors will invest heavily in digital ...

Retail super fund to be wound up

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 JAN 2022
A retail superannuation fund offered to customers of several small players in Australia's banking sector will close in March. Credit Union Building Societies Superannuation, known as CUBS Superannuation, is a retail offering overseen by Equity Trustees ...

HESTA leads trustee board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021
Superannuation fund HESTA has the highest number of women on its trustee board with nine females versus five males. An analysis of APRA's fund-level superannuation data as at June 2021 shows the $67 billion fund has tipped the gender imbalance as ...

CFS launches low cost geared index options

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
Colonial First State (CFS) has today launched two new geared index options through its $109 billion FirstChoice platform, giving investors leveraged exposure to local and global markets. The first passively managed geared investment options to be offered ...

De Ferrari returns to Credit Suisse

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
Francesco De Ferrari will return to his old hunting ground after finishing up at AMP in June. De Ferrari has signed on to become the chief executive of the Credit Suisse's wealth management division as of 1 January 2022. He also assumes the role of ...

Economic recap: Week to December 10

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021
... and employment - that, at the same time, underwrote gains (or limited the losses in most equity markets." Punctuated by the roll-out of vaccines towards the dying days of 2020. All looked swell... until the coronavirus variant that was first spotted ...

ESG overhaul for SSGA ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
State Street Global Advisors will roll out enhancements to four of its SPDR ETFs and, in the process, give Australian investors access to an ESG-focused global real estate ETF and reduced carbon emissions emerging markets ETF for the first time. From ...