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Superhero to offer Qantas points

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... in worldwide work on the changing landscape of retail trading markets as part of the International Organization of Securities Commissions Retail Market Conduct Task Force. The Task Force has identified several emerging concerns coinciding with the unprecedented ...

Regulators fret over hobby traders

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
Globally, securities regulators are concerned about the boom in retail trading markets and are joining forces to address the issue. The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation paper on retail market ...

SEC to standardise climate disclosures

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2022
In a significant change, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposes all entities it regulates should have to disclose climate change-related factors including greenhouse gas emissions. The proposal would mean companies regulated by the ...

Disclosure lacking in common ownership: Committee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... stakeholders were trying to explain to it - that there is no evidence whatsoever that so-called common ownership of securities creates any governance problems," Dunnin said. "Reinforcing this, the narrative in the report appears to struggle to advance ...

ASIC opens CCIV licensing consultation

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... AFSLs wanting to apply and operate a CCIV and those seeking to provide financial product advice on and/or deal in CCIV securities. It also looks at the administration of licensee obligations that apply to CCIV corporate directors. ASIC oversees licensing ...

Permanent ban for former authorised representative

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... the corporate regulator, between 1 June 2015 to 22 October 2020, Halligan, who was an authorised representative of BR Securities Australia, transferred shares in excess of $550,000 from his clients' accounts. The shares were transferred into the trading ...

HESTA pushes forward with internalisation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
... HESTA may never achieve scale to in-house those investment functions. "We have small investments in insurance-linked securities for example, we will never be at scale in that asset class. We also have investments in some venture capital in the US, that ...

Milford adds to global product suite

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
... funds is the Milford Global Real Asset Fund, which invests in global listed infrastructure, utility and real estate securities with the aim of providing income and capital growth. It seeks to outperform the RBA cash rate by 4% per annum over a rolling ...

Super mergers only beginning: J.P. Morgan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
... mean close to 100 of today's 174 superannuation funds will no longer exist," J.P. Morgan head of platform sales, securities services Nick Paparo said. The survey confirms that super fund executives consider the biggest driver of mergers to be the ...

ETF Securities, 21Shares introduce market monitor

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
In partnership with European cryptocurrency provider 21Shares, ETF Securities Australia has presented the latest crypto market monitor to provide investors insight and analysis around the recent moves in the crypto market. The monitor suggests that ...