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Financial Standard launches weekly podcast

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
Financial Standard is expanding its media offering with a new weekly podcast for financial advisers, investment managers and super fund trustees. In addition to discussing the week's biggest news, the podcast will feature interviews with industry ...

Baby Boomers cashing in on meme stocks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2021
... Millennials are losing money. The analysis covered 11 "meme stocks" (stocks whose share prices skyrocketed due to social media hype on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook - not fundamentals). Based on an evenly weighted basket of the 11 stocks, investors over ...

Social media pump and dumps gain traction

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2021
The regulator has warned that pump and dump schemes are becoming a trend on social media. ASIC said it has observed a "concerning" trend of social media posts being used to coordinate pump and dump activity in listed stocks. It's now issued a reminder ...

ASIC worried about finfluencers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2021
... and cashflows but view professional advice as too expensive. "They may have gone online and got some advice from a social media influencer, or a finfluencer," Longo said. He added that ASIC is looking into the conflation of personal and general advice ...

More departures at EISS Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
... the departure of the fund's chief executive Alex Hutchison following failure of the inaugural APRA performance test and media reports of frivolous spending and poor culture at the fund. In the days that followed Hutchison defended his tenure, saying ...

Former super fund chief defends tenure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021
The former chief executive of EISS Super has spoken out about his decision to depart the fund in the wake of media scrutiny and the fund's failure of the APRA performance test. Alex Hutchison resigned as chief executive of EISS Super on September ...

Advisers embrace technology, lack budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2021
... websites responsive to mobile phones (81.9% up from 77.6% in 2021); educational email newsletters to clients (71.3%); social media (60.6%); and tools such as retirement calculators (64.9%). Those advisers that successfully deployed technology in their ...

NZ Super Fund delivers 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
The New Zealand Super Fund continues to outperform Australian MySuper funds, posting its a best-ever return of 29.6%. The 2020-21 financial year saw the fund reach new heights of NZD$59.8 billion, an increase of NZD$15 billion year on year. It also ...

Verve Super taps investors for $2.6m raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... coming on board as one of the investors. Verve said the raise attracted female investors including philanthropist and AI Media chair Deanne Weir, human rights lawyer Dalit Kaplan, Without Fear or Favour founder Pam O'Connor and TWOOBS founders Jess and ...

ATO will not pursue erroneous JobKeeper payments

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2021
... industries relied most on JobKeeper. Many large ASX-listed companies that claimed JobSeeker payments have been slammed by the media for largely profiting during the pandemic yet refuse to repay the government. Federal Minister for Home Affairs Karen ...