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Open banking regime to boost advice

DARREN SNYDER, KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2018
... adviser at AP Financial Solutions, Adrian Patty, says open banking will improve innovation and the delivery of new technologies, and in turn, allow advisers to deliver greater value. Already partnering with fintech myprosperity, Patty has seen a marked ...

Insurtech associations form global alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... underway for a sector little changed in over two centuries. In just a few years, there has been a rapid emergence of new technologies and insurtech activities across the insurance value chain." "As a global network of organisations dedicated to supporting ...

Venture capital sector booming but needs greater government support

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... year-on-year, the report said. KPMG head of high growth ventures Amanda Price said: "The applicability of innovative technologies, whether artificial intelligence and machine learning or blockchain, to different sectors will likely keep investors focused ...

Global wealth manager champions embattled digital currencies

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... changing the way we access, manage and use money - and the changes are coming quicker than ever before due to improving technologies and growing demand," Green said. "Nothing has captured the imagination in this new fintech age quite like cryptocurrencies ...

Former SMSF Association chief joins CEFC board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... Mathias Corman announced Andrea Slattery will join the government body that finances renewable energy and low emissions technologies, together with Philip Coffey and Laura Reed. Slattery has more than 25 years of experience in financial services and ...

Industry names team up for cryptocurrency fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... recognised fund structure and long-term global markets experience with the new, emerging asset class of blockchain-based technologies, according to Hatfield. Based and registered in the Cayman Islands, the actively traded cryptocurrency and initial coin ...

Amazon still an early-stage company: Fundie

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... good example. It helped build out the backbone of the internet but new software-defined networking products and new technologies means the firm has lost its leading role and is considered to have a value trap. "The big surprise to investors is not that ...

Australia braces for Amazon impact

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... but it does mean that real game-changers like same-day delivery may have to wait for the widespread adoption of new technologies such as drones." Janus Henderson Investors senior analyst Nick Sladen suggested that even though Australian retailers will ...

Advice industry must think bigger: Netwealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... recent AdviceTech report show advisers identified robo-advice, managed accounts and scaled advice as the top three technologies that will have the biggest impact on advice practices in the next five years. "I've got a real issue with this. This was done ...

Social media boosting super fund engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... having a presence in that space is a priority. And funds continue to watch their members' behaviours to trial new technologies and inform their own future direction," he said. Despite this, the decline of print member communication is slower than expected ...