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State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... a company's cash flow was scorned, and somehow short sighted or even small minded. The focus was on growth and the revolution that was the internet," State Street Global Advisors Australia head of portfolio management and active quantitative equities ...

Regtech adds to advisory board

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
Australian regtech company Asendium has made two new advisory board appointments, which it says will help prepare the company for expansion into the US, UK, Canadian and European markets. Former AMP director of technology Giovanni De Angelis and corporate ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
A Monash University lecturer has pushed the case for a GST holiday, which he argues is the most effective way to generate "maximum economic bang for the government's buck". In an opinion piece for The Conversation, economics lecturer Isaac Gross argued ...

Advisers switch platforms amid pandemic

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... dissatisfied, demonstrating there is still room for improvement. Nonetheless, the COVID-19 crisis has kick started a digital revolution in advice, transforming the way advisers communicate with their clients and accelerating their adoption of digital ...

The future is fast arriving: BlackRock

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... fundamentals. "The coronavirus shock is reinforcing structural trends and introducing new ones, such as the policy revolution, surging sustainability wave and accelerating deglobalisation," it said. "In many ways, the future is arriving fast. This has ...

Small caps soar amid accelerated revolution

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... old ideologies cast aside," he said. "Small-caps and micro-caps are better placed to benefit from this accelerated revolution." Similarly, Australian Ethical portfolio manager Andy Gracey said many small caps are now trading at a premium to their large ...

Isolated advisers enter the digital age

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... hungry to use, but I haven't found them yet," he said. De Gori believes the pandemic has kick-started a digital revolution in advice. "For financial planners, financial planning businesses, licensees and the financial services industry more broadly ...

Time to step up or face the music

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... she said. Motto believes that COVID-19 will forever change business as we know it. "COVID-19 will cause a business revolution which will see the fast tracking of the success of some business models and the failure of others," she said. "It will mean ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... into offshore windfarms instead - completely getting out of fossil fuels. "That wasn't a real transition, it was a revolution," Peers said. BP, on the other hand, doesn't meet Peers' criteria even though the company has announced it will ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe. Grexit, the Jasmine Revolution, North Korea's missile launches, Brexit and Trump's trade war -- and other challenges in-between -- proved no match ...