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Manage wealth with authority: Academic

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
The financial services industry needs to be more paternalistic if it's ever going to really help people prepare for retirement, Duke University professor of psychology and behavioral economics Dan Ariely believes. Speaking at the 2017 Association of ...

DomaCom unitholders approve new trustee

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2017
DomaCom shareholders have approved the appointment of its new trustee, delivering the capability to introduce crowdfunded mortgage backed loans. The fractional property investment platform announced in October that it had appointed Melbourne Securities ...

RNY unitholders left unpaid after Aurora scandal

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
Many unitholders in the RNY Property Trust have yet to be compensated following the takeover by Aurora Funds Management, whose chief financial officer was terminated after $1 million vanished from a listed Aurora trust last weekend, and ASIC has so ...

ASIC brings in disclosure expert to review RG97

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
ASIC has appointed a veteran of managed investments and superannuation regulation to review the costs disclosure settings in RG97. Darren McShane, most recently chief regulation and policy officer of Hong Kong's Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority ...

Game theory revolutionises risk profiling

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
The gamification of risk profiling is rising in Australia with the launch of a platform already being used by several advice groups. United States-based behavioural economics, decision science and financial technology firm Capital Preferences has developed ...

Superannuation fears regulatory strangle: ASFA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2017
The greatest threat to Australia's $2.5 trillion superannuation system is regulatory overreach and strangulation in red tape. This was the takeaway message from Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) independent chair Michael Easson ...

Contango swaps investment managers following AGM

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
The majority of Contango Microcap (CTN) shareholders approved the proposal to remove Contango Asset Management (CGA) as the firm's investment manager at the annual general meeting today. The new investment manager for CTN will be NAOS Asset Management. ...

Blockchain will boost company value: Research

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
Using blockchain technology to allow e-voting at annual general meetings would likely increase overall company value, latest research from the University of Wollongong shows. Research conducted by University of Wollongong deputy vice chancellor Alex ...

ETF fees to plunge: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
As the cost of exchange-traded funds continues to plummet and becomes more affordable, there is still room for competition in the booming sector, latest EY research reveals. Over the next three years, EY's ETF report shows the global market will reach ...

Long-short performance justifies fees: Zenith

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
New Zenith research suggests that despite the higher premiums charged to investors, the average return produced by long-short funds justifies the cost. Zenith found in the 12 months to September 30, global long-short managers delivered a 2.3% premium ...