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Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
... digital is also an undercurrent of investors' hesitation. A 2022 survey by the CFA Institute found that 82% of retail investors in Australia are more likely to trust human advice than robo-led advice. This distrust has only widened as 62% of investors ...

S64, Vista Equity Partners roll out unit trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... region. The new product - S64 VistaOne AUT - will launch to local wealth advisory platforms, wholesale and advised retail investors in early 2026. Vista Equity Partners has US$100 billion in assets, targeting enterprise software, data and technology ...

Shield collapse brings wholesale governance to the forefront

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... of talk about governance among the adviser community amid the fallout of the two failed schemes. About 12,000 retail investors have lost more than $1 billion from the two managed investment schemes. "People are talking about governance a lot more already. ...

Platinum shareholders greenlight L1 Capital merger

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2025
... investment management business with a diversified client base across institutional, wholesale, high-net-worth and retail investors in Australia and globally." If the merger did not proceed, Strapp warned that Platinum shareholders "will continue to be ...

ASIC issues interim stop orders to RELI Capital

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2025
... registered managed investment scheme operated by RELI Capital. The regulator said it is to protect consumers and retail investors from acquiring a product not suitable for their financial objectives. Its action follows concern that the target market ...

Australian investors undeterred by global market turbulence

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... Sharesies revealed Australians remain confident in their investments despite global uncertainties. Polling over 2500 retail investors, 61% of respondents indicated they have chosen to maintain or increase their investments. Even more participants (65%) ...

AI adoption by investors 'grows rapidly': Research

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2025
... is rising, according to new survey from Chartered Accountants ANZ (CA ANZ). CA ANZ survey of 1000 Australian retail investors with more than $10,000 invested in the stock market showed almost half of the respondents use tools like ChatGPT or Co-Pilot ...

ASIC warns of 'sharp rise' in financial misconduct

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... significant rise in the number of misconduct reports made to ASIC, with more than half of the complaints impacting retail investors. ASIC's half-year reports of misconduct data shows that there were 7561 reports of misconduct from 1 January 2025 to 30 ...

Warakirri brings US manager to Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... Management is partnering with a San Diego-based manager to launch a global small companies fund to wholesale and retail investors. Warakirri will distribute the ClariVest Global Small Companies Fund on behalf of ClariVest Asset Management. It will also ...

FCA fines Neil Woodford, WIM $94m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2025
... Woodford £5.89 million ($12.1m) and banned him from being employed in senior manager roles and managing funds for retail investors. Woodford Investment Management (WIM) has been slapped with a £40 million fine ($82.1m). The Woodford Equity Income Fund ...