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Young investors fall prey to bad social media advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
Over one third (34%) of investors have acted on financial information seen online or on social media that ended up being misleading or factually incorrect, a new survey reveals. According to US insurance and financial services firm Nationwide, investors ...

AMP adds to board

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023
AMP has appointed Kathleen Bailey-Lord and Anna Leibel to its board following the exit of non-executive director Kate McKenzie. AMP said the new non-executive directors will start their roles at the beginning of January, coinciding with the next phase ...

BlackRock plans to launch Ethereum ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023
BlackRock submitted a filing in Delaware to establish an iShares Ethereum Trust last week, while NASDAQ has proposed to list and trade its shares. In June, the $9 trillion asset manager similarly registered a Bitcoin trust, which was closely followed ...

Financial services firms hit with criminal charges

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2023
Two businesses tied to permanently banned Sydney director David Sutton have been charged in separate proceedings following an investigation by ASIC. APC Securities, previously known as McFaddens Securities, and Brava Capital, formerly Dayton Way Securities ...

ASIC bans former PwC partner over tax scandal

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023
Disgraced former PwC head of international tax Peter-John Collins has been banned from providing financial services or controlling an entity that carries on a financial services business for eight years. At the start of the year, Collins was barred ...

ASIC fines fintech for misrepresenting crypto product

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2023
... product, ASIC said customers deposited AUD into a Bobbob account. The AUD deposits were then exchanged for the crypto-asset USD Coin (USDC), which is said to be a "stablecoin" whose value is pegged to the USD. This USDC was transferred to Bobbob's lending ...

Rest awards mandate to specialist fund manager

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
Rest has granted an investment mandate to renewable fund manager Octopus Australia, seeking to bolster long-term returns for its 1.9 million members. The $75 billion industry fund's investment coincides with Octopus closing its second fundraising round ...

Janus Henderson launches new fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2023
Janus Henderson has launched its Emerging Markets Equity Fund to local investors, the result of increased client demand. The fund provides exposure to countries and corporations at different stages of economic and political development, targeting a ...

Returns from agriculture a perfect storm of demographics, demand

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2023
Demographic shifts, rising food demand, inflation hedging, and ongoing farm consolidation are revolutionising how the world produces food and invests in the agriculture sector. Speaking at the AIST ASI Conference this week, Warakirri Asset Management ...

ASIC cancels FTX Australia's licence

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2023
ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services licence of embattled crypto company FTX. The regulator explained that until 12 July 2024 the company may provide limited financial services that relate to the termination of existing derivatives with ...