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Crowdfunding investment opportunity unleashed

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... crowdfunding will be Millennials (20 to 36-year-olds). "According to a NAB Group Economics Report more than 50% of 18-29-year-olds aspire to own their own business," he said. "With equity crowd-funding, they can. Millennials are predicted to be the main ...

Centrepoint launches new advice partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... the non-institutional advice sector," she said. "We also believe it will provide up and coming firms with something to aspire to." Earlier this month Cargakis was named as Centrepoint's interim chief executive. In addition to her distribution and marketing ...

Industry fund restructures, hires for member engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017
... Magee and her team will be focused on coaching as many of Equip's members as possible towards the financial freedom they aspire to in retirement, he said. Magee joined Equip in 2008 as a senior financial planner, becoming manager of its financial planning ...

ESG adoption grows, returns follow

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... 50% said it's difficult to benchmark performance against peers. Despite this, 90% of APAC investors surveyed said they aspire to integrate a fuller ESG strategy over the next two years - one that goes beyond negative screening. Globally, 80% of respondents ...

Fitzpatricks strengthens Victorian advice presence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
Fitzpatricks Private Wealth is continuing its expansion with the addition of two Melbourne advice practices. Chronos Private and Marasea Partners have aligned with Fitzpatricks, following a line of firms to come under its licence in the past 12 months. ...

Super funds raise $9m for social bond

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... Australia's homeless via investment in a new social bond. The super funds are among the investors in Social Ventures Australia's Aspire Social Impact Bond (Aspire SIB), raising $9 million to help about 600 individuals in South Australia with accommodation ...

ASFA slams Grattan as 'out of touch'

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... fought back saying Grattan's claims were out of touch with the reality of living costs in Australia. "Australians don't aspire to retire on the age pension and Grattan's aspirations fly in the face of a long tradition of a progressive improvement in ...

AZ NGA subsidiary makes first acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... practice. The advisory firm, which partnered with AZ NGA three months ago, has nearly doubled its size with the purchase of Aspire Strategic Retirement Specialists (Aspire). Aspire services more than 500 clients across its three offices in North Brisbane ...

Institutions grappling with risk culture

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... despite a stronger focus on risk culture, most institutions are grappling to articulate what type of risk culture they aspire to have, let alone how they will address weaknesses. In a paper released yesterday, APRA said the inability of institutions ...

Retail funds trailing NFPs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The 12-month return gap between workplace retail funds and not-for-profits is currently 120 basis points, according to Rainmaker Information research. In the latest Rainmaker Benchmarking report, based on the SelectingSuper workplace default option ...