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Fintechs in the money, gain confidence

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The fintech sector is bullish it can grab market share from big banks and incumbents with the advent of open banking and as the fallout from the Royal Commission plays out, EY's latest fintech census shows. With one-in-five fintechs now turning a profit ...

Super funds react to market sell off

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
AustralianSuper and Equip Super are among the superannuation funds reassuring members as the S&P/ASX 200 slid close to its lowest in a year last Thursday. On October 25, The S&P/ASX 200 closed more than 6% lower than at the start of the year, on the ...

CBA ramps up blockchain

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
Commonwealth Bank is close to completing more blockchain projects, after it delivered the world's first blockchain bond with World Bank in August. Speaking at SIBOS, Sophie Gilder who is CBA's head of experimentation and commercialisation for ...

Billionaire investor says markets in late cycle but anything possible

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Oaktree Capital Management cofounder Howard Marks says the current bull market is in a late stage but it could still go "up, sideways or down." Marks's firm has more than US$120 billion in assets under management. He addressed a media briefing in ...

Young advisers key to business sustainability

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
The highest performing financial services firms are those that are more likely to hire younger advisers, according to new research. Macquarie's second bi-annual AFS Benchmarking Report shows that more than 55% of high performing firms are hiring younger ...

FPA finds Sam Henderson guilty

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
High profile financial adviser Sam Henderson has been found guilty of nine of 10 alleged breaches of the Financial Planning Association of Australia's code of professional practice. The determination was delivered this afternoon by the FPA's ...

CBA releases remediation scorecard

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
An independent review of CBA's remediation action plan says the bank has satisfactorily hit just one of its 153 milestones as at August end, but is showing evidence of commitment. CBA was required to put together a remediation action plan after APRA ...

YTML launches advice app aggregator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
Financial planning technology provider YTML is launching a financial advice app store. The Seido Financial Advice App Store will enable apps designed for each stage of the advice journey to work together to efficiently create compliant advice documents. ...

Hostplus VC assets to hit $1bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2018
Hostplus is tipped to become the largest investor in venture capital in Australia as assets are forecast to reach $1 billion by the end of September. Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia told the AIST Super Investment Conference that the $33 ...

Drought-hit farmers turn to advice

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
This July was the driest in Australia for 16 years. Almost 100% of New South Wales and 57% of Queensland is in drought and financial advisers are dealing first-hand with the impact. The numbers are startling yet they don't come close to measuring ...