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Acorns rebrands, issues prospectus

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
The micro-investment platform formerly known as Acorns Grow Australia is one step closer to listing on the ASX as the rebranded Raiz Invest. Raiz lodged its prospectus aiming to raise more than $15 million, eyeing a target listing date of 21 June 2018. ...

Industry wants one-stop-shop professional body: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... Nineteen per cent said no and would prefer professional bodies to continue to separately govern members' code of conduct as is. Round two of the Royal Commission, which took place between April 16 and 27, scrutinised several shortcomings of the professional ...

Thought leadership: Building portfolios for market crises

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Financial Standard's latest roundtable event turned attention to how fund managers, financial advisers, researchers and analysts build investment portfolios for market crises. SQM Research head of research Robert da Silva says behavioural insights over ...

SMSFs ramp up LRBA and property allocations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
Latest ATO figures show self-managed super funds' interest in limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBA) and residential property assets have skyrocketed in the last five years. December 2017 quarterly data shows the sector held $31.4 billion in ...

SSGA boosts SPDR distribution team

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
State Street Global Advisors SPDR ETFs is welcoming two members to its national distribution team. The first, Linda Stangherlin, joins SPDR ETFs as national relationship manager - ETFs. She arrives from Zurich, where she was national sales manager - ...

What makes a tech company attractive for HNW investors?

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
As artificial intelligence (AI) disrupts technology over the next decade, tech companies could make for key investments in portfolios of HNW and UHNW individuals, according to a four-person panel led by Crestone Wealth Management in Sydney earlier this ...

Sixty per cent of FPA members hold degree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... 60% of members hold a degree. This is compared with just 35% across the planning industry as discovered during the second round hearings at the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry. FPA chief ...

RECAP: Advice in the Royal Commission spotlight (Days 1 - 3)

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
... points you need to know. Australia's top financial institutions are lining up before Commissioner Kenneth Hayne in the latest round of the financial services Royal Commission that runs until April 27. Between shuffling of papers, awkward pauses and some ...

Banks put revenue above quality advice: FSU

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
Following today's round of hearings for the Royal Commission, the Finance Sector Union of Australia (FSU) noted that "banks had better systems in place to track incoming revenue than to make sure customers had been given the ongoing advice they were ...

Social media singles out ASIC in Royal Commission coverage

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
ASIC was a specific target by social media commentators during the first round of hearings for the Royal Commission into Australia's biggest providers of financial advice. Commentators on Twitter were broadly critical of ASIC's attempts to police and ...