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Former adviser cops 20-year prison sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
A former financial adviser in the US will spend the next 20 years behind bars after defrauding retiree investors of $30 million, some of which was used to fund religious ceremonies to ward off federal investigators. Dawn Bennett of Maryland was this ...

Willis Towers Watson buys Aussie broker

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
Global advisory Willis Towers Watson has acquired Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The acquisition is effective immediately, enhancing WTW's offering to clients in ...

Australian equity markets remain clean: ASIC

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
Australia is among the most efficient or "cleanest" equity markets compared with the rest of the world, according to a recent ASIC review. The review by ASIC found Australian equity markets continue to operate with "a high degree of integrity". Measuring ...

Shadforth signs new tech partner

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
Shadforth Financial Group has signed a new partner to provide third-party clearing and settlement services. FinClear will now deliver trading, clearing and settlement services to Shadforth, along with its TradeCentre front-end technology. FinClear chief ...

Xplore Wealth launches new solution

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... Xplore Wrap offers "a world of investments" with multi-currency and multi-market investment access and trading through a broker of the adviser's choice. Xplore Wealth non-executive chair Peter Brook said the platform was developed in part to "help transform ...

Frat house ponzi scheme charged

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
A ponzi scheme run by a 22-year old out of a college fraternity house in the United States has copped the regulator's ire. Syed Arhan Arbab collected more than $269,000 from at least eight college students, recent graduates, or their family members ...

SEC adopts retail investor protection package

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
... make better informed decisions about financial products and easily compare services. Regulation Best Interest requires broker-dealers to act in the best interest of retail customers when making recommendations for securities transactions or investment ...

Shock win leaves investors worse off

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
Investors who chose to rebalance their portfolios in anticipation of a Labor victory in the Federal election now find themselves at a critical junction: to revert to an Australian equity focus or accept a more balanced portfolio that rejects excess ...

Wealth firm backs new Perennial fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management will invest $25 million in a new fund from Perennial's small and micro caps team. The Perennial Private to Public Opportunities Fund will hold 30-45 investments in pre-IPOs, IPOs and unlisted growth capital. There ...

SSGA launches four model portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
State Street Global Advisors will launch a suite of multi-asset ETF model portfolios that aim to meet financial advisers' demand for low cost and easy to implement solutions. The portfolios fall into two investment strategies: State Street Risk-Based ...