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Industry fund eyes KiwiSaver accounts

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... exceptionally picky when it comes to letting a company come into contact with our customers, mainly because many of them feel vulnerable when engaging with our services and we cannot allow them to be taken advantage of at any cost. Australia and New ...

Cbus brings digital assets in-house

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... fund has been working on the project for over two years now. "We want to have that real single channel experience and we feel we are the best people to adapt to changing member expectations," Pickering said. "We wanted to build a digital environment ...

Vanguard launches SMSF functionality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... Australia's listed ETFs brokerage free. The website has been designed to assist investors by having functionality and a look and feel that aims to promote diversified, long term investing rather than short term trading." Vanguard has been moving towards ...

COVID-19 dampens retirement expectations: Study

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... for the future. In a survey of 1007 current and prospective retirees nationwide, Allianz Retire+ found that four in five feel that their investments are not safe from economic downturn, while one in three have downgraded their expectations for retirement. ...

FIIG calls for taxation, regulatory overhaul

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... tinkering at the edges with no progress made." FIIG said it regularly receives feedback from the Australian investing public who feel they are unfairly penalised for investing in the corporate bond market in Australia due to the absence of concessional ...

Financial services demands more mental health support

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
COVID-19 has caused an uptick in the demand for access to mental health and wellbeing training for the employees of financial services firms, according to SuperFriend. New analysis by the wealth management industry's mental health partner reveals a ...

Regal Atlantic fund up 12.5% in May, down 61.65% YTD

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... month were primarily focused on the shortbook, particularly across a small number of positions in higher PE names where we feel current expectations seem overly optimistic and share prices look increasingly vulnerable to a near term setback," Regal said ...

Bad news for BDMs despite industry-wide uptick

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
The latest market update for financial services in Australia from Kaizen Recruitment contains some welcome good news, but times remain tough for business development managers. Kaizen recently surveyed over 50 financial services organisations regarding ...

Labor calls for end to war on super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
The Labor Party is calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to finally put an end to the war on superannuation waged by government backbenchers, in an effort to ensure Australia rebounds from COVID-19 "faster and better". Financial Standard has obtained ...

ASIC mainly concerned with media releases: Lawyer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
Hamilton Blackstone Lawyers managing director Cristean Yazbeck has argued that ASIC is mainly concerned with its own reputation and the media releases it can put out in relation to action on financial advisers. Yazbeck said in a paper that after ASIC ...