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Litigation funders will need AFSLs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... fairness, honesty, competence and organisational resources. "Removal of these exemptions will also require greater transparency around the operations of litigation funders in Australia," Frydenberg said. The amendments are expected to take effect in ...

Saxo Markets launches investment loyalty scheme

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... loyalty scheme will automatically "level up" Saxo Markets clients when they achieve new statuses. "This level of transparency and complexity is unique in this market for a trading and investment loyalty program," Smith said. "Saxo's world class technology ...

Australian ETF market shows strength

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... success story of the wealth industry as investors look to add better diversification into their portfolios. "The transparency and performance of ETFs have been a boon during the recent share market sell-off," Brycki said. "During this period of extreme ...

Platform to shine light on structured products

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... products tracking one or more underlying assets "with respect to a barrier or protection level". "This is the type of transparency that structured product investors have been looking for," Streater said. "To our knowledge, Stropro is the first to offer ...

ASIC secures $160m in remediation over junk credit insurance

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... collect and publish claims ratios to check how CCI products provide value to consumers and ensure ongoing public transparency," the watchdog said. To safeguard consumers, ASIC has banned "cold-call" telephone sales of consumer credit insurance, worked ...

South Australian wealth firms merge

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... individually tailored, rather than volume, approach to wealth management. There's a shared practice of openness and transparency in actively safeguarding client interests," Wotherspoon said. "Culturally, it is a natural fit and strategically it also ...

Compliance crackdown, consultations on horizon: ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... LITs and exchange traded funds, just to try and bring those frameworks into some sort of alignment around portfolio transparency, performance reporting and internal market making," Lewis said. It is also looking to update guidance on spread requirements ...

Fortescue seeks to hide pricing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... a range of industry sources," Binks said. "Independent, objective market reporting which creates commodity price transparency is an essential service and very much in the public interest." An interim hearing in the UK is set for May 11 this year. S&P ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... look at alternative assets like private equity and real estate. They are a bit different [from listed securities in] transparency of the data and the details behind it," he said. Boccassini said the tool can be an addition to NT's investment risk and ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... success, like tax incentives that encourage individual investment and effective regulation of funds that promotes transparency and limits misleading statements and conflicts of interest," he said. "We found that regulators in the US and Canada are generally ...