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BlackRock confirms iShares delisting timetable

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
BlackRock has laid out options for iShares ETF investors to liquidate their holdings, reconfirming it will suspend the trading of five products from the ASX in about a month. On May 3, BlackRock said it was pulling five iShares products from the Australian ...

InvestSMART to launch active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... having wet signatures and 200-page product disclosure statements, "You can just buy our funds on the exchange through a broker account." "Magellan did this country an enormous favour, along with ASIC and the ASX, by making active ETFs available to investors," ...

Government names AFCA board members

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
Four industry figures, including a prominent Sydney financial planner, have been appointed to the board of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). The new members are Claire Mackay, Andrew Fairley, Erin Turner and Alan Wein. They join ...

Saxo Bank moves banking platform to cloud

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
Saxo Bank has entered a strategic partnership with tech giant Microsoft, under which it will aim to run the technology stack for all of its banking products on Microsoft cloud. Founder and chief executive Kim Fournai said the move will help the bank ...

Fidelity to launch active ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... having wet signatures and 200-page product disclosure statements, "You can just buy our funds on the exchange through a broker account." "Magellan did this country an enormous favour, along with ASIC and the ASX, by making active ETFs available to investors," ...

Royal Commission presents clear downside for bank stocks

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... Royal Commission cannot be ruled out," he said. "Changes from sales focused remuneration to soft targets and changes to broker and network commission structures are also likely to ultimately affect bank earnings. As a result, the investment case in the ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Day 4 and 5)

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
As the Royal Commission disbands for the week, Financial Standard summarises all the evidence heard on day four and five of the financial advice industry's turn before Commissioner Kenneth Hayne. Executives from Westpac, CBA and AMP have now made an ...

US regulator to extend fiduciary rule

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
The financial services regulator in the United States is broadening the scope of the proposed fiduciary duty to combat conflicted investment advice and mitigate confusion around the differing standards to which different industry professionals are held. ...

ASIC totally unprepared for advice reforms: Tynan

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
Connect Financial Service Brokers chief executive Paul Tynan believes if the Royal Commission has made anything clear, it's that ASIC is in the dark about how to police financial advice misconduct. Speaking to Financial Standard, Tynan said the key ...

AI comes to SMSF administration

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... BGL had been adding new data feeds consistently over the last year. "Over the past 12 months we have added numerous bank, broker, wrap and platform data fees bringing the total number to an industry leading 200+ integrations," he said.