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UBS shutters international shares fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2025
... fund invested across a wide range of countries and currencies, with some of the assets partially hedged to the Australian dollar. According to Rainmaker Information, the fund had a net asset value of $12.5 million as of August 31 and returned 11.22% ...

Feature: Digital advice | Sleeping giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2025
About three years ago, robo-advisers, one by one, began dropping like flies. The likes of Six Park, Upstreet and Advice Intelligence either folded or were acquired. Even Ellerston Capital's ethically based robo-adviser, which launched in early 2023 ...

More than 75% of asset owners wary of trade disputes

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
... have been material to investments in the last year, 73% of asset owners cited the US administration while 62% cited the US dollar weakness. APAC investors are the most concerned about the US administration, with 44% saying it was very material. They ...

GIM director slapped with travel restraints

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2025
Global Investment Marketing (GIM) director Darren Geddes has been barred from leaving the country for the next six months as ASIC alleges he misappropriated money via a sham bond investment scheme. ASIC did not provide details behind its allegations ...

MHC Digital partners to launch stablecoin platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2025
... fastest-scaling asset class in financial history, and demand from exchanges, wealth platforms and fintechs for compliant Australian dollar rails is at an all-time high," Carnegie said. "Macropod will deliver the trust, scale and connectivity institutions ...

ASIC makes 'first-of-its-kind' exemption to broaden digital asset access

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2025
... AUDM issued by Catena Digital. Catena Digital was granted an AFSL about two months ago when it launched the Australian dollar-denominated stablecoin. According to ASIC Corporations (Stablecoin Distribution Exemption) Instrument 2025/631, the instrument ...

RBA's Hauser warns super funds of $1tn FX risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2025
... GDP, and an overseas portfolio share approaching three-quarters," he said. "All of this may be great news for Australian dollar volumes. But it also puts us bang at the heart of a quite exceptional period of uncertainty about the future direction of ...

Retirees unfairly targeted by tax: HESTA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... the Income Test taper rate. Under this system, a part pensioner's Age Pension benefit is reduced by 50 cents for every dollar earned above the income-free threshold. HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey said the research highlights the need to provide ...

FEATURE: Back in action

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2025
... has built up in their home to invest. "This is far more popular with our clients. So, for example, someone has a million-dollar house with a $400,000 mortgage left on it, and they say, 'we have over $600,000 of equity here, I'd like to do something more ...

FEATURE: Hyped up

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2025
... conversation and in that file note we need to capture not only the specific information, but what's changed in terms of dollar figures in their financial situation, and capture what the general conversation was like, what's in their best interest ...