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ANZ faces mis-selling allegations in court

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... citizens residing permanently in Australia since 2004 under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement (and granted a Special Category Visa), were offered the Easy Cover Life product in an ANZ marketing letter in 2005, which was underwritten by ING Life (now ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... technology leading to major breakthroughs in longevity. In the medium term, Magellan's top four holdings - Apple, Microsoft, Visa and Alphabet - are aimed at benefitting from advances in cloud computing, big data and artificial intelligence; the move ...

NAB and PwC partner for tax app

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... income data and can lodge the relevant GST statements with the ATO automatically. On top of this, NAB has also launched a Visa debit card that uses the Airtax service. In a statement, the bank said the partnership came about due to the rapid growth of ...

SIV interest wanes after rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Applications for Significant Investor Visas (SIVs) have fallen dramatically since new rules requiring investment in start-ups and emerging companies were introduced in July. Reports from November showed there have been just 19 applications since the ...

HUB24 adds international portfolios to platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... Alcock said. "Now investors can easily and affordably directly own such well-known companies such as Colgate, Nestle, Toyota, Visa, Microsoft and Apple via the international managed portfolios on our market-leading investment platform."

Venture capital is back in vogue

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2015
... investor visas (SIVs) and that's driven a lot of capital in to the industry," Casali said. "You're looking at $500,000 per visa that has to find its way in to venture capital and growth companies and that's going to increase over the next two years to ...

Sydney in top 10 financial centres

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
The federal government's innovation statement was well received among the financial services industry but there are still gaps to be filled in transforming Australia's fiscal growth according to a chief economist. Providing his global economic and market ...

Industry welcomes Innovation Statement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
The reforms detailed in the Government's recent Innovation Statement have been enthusiastically welcomed by the financial services industry and beyond. Among a package of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra yesterday were ...

UBS small cap SIV fund gets Zenith tick

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... that "the Fund is one of the very few funds to be declared compliant under the Australian government's Significant Investor Visa guidelines." The fund is managed by the team behind the UBS Microcap and UBS Australian Small Companies funds. Zenith praised ...