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Investors warned to sell hybrids before phase out

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2025
As APRA phases out hybrids, and with retail investors holding an estimated 20-30% of the $42 billion sector, Schroders fund manager Helen Mason said now is a good time for investors to consider a new income solution. Mason said the phase out of retail ...

Study finds 5000 European ESG funds investing in fossil fuels

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... this travesty." Meantime, Facing Finance financial analyst Frederike Potts said more needs to be done to ensure retail investors are not misled. "Retail investors in particular can hardly see through the ESG jungle and often have no idea in what dirty ...

Wilson AM to launch first monthly LIC strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... to ASIC last week. "WAM Income Maximiser's offering is unique in the Australian landscape and will provide retail investors with access to wholesale income markets they are typically unable to access," Haupt said. "The WAM Income Maximiser portfolio ...

Younger women embrace geared strategies: Data

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... Report highlighted the number of geared investors rose to 100,000 in 2024, outpacing the 10% growth in online retail investors. The figure is also closing in on the record number 109,000 set in 2021 across the past six years. The number of geared investors ...

ASIC turns up the heat on private markets

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
... untested by prior crises - regulators need information to consider the risks and plan responses." The fact that retail investors can easily gain access to private markets is a concern for ASIC. Some products ask for a buy-in that is as little as $2000. ...

Betashares launches Bitcoin, Ethereum ETFs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
... Vynokur said. In a statement, Betashares said Bitcoin ETFs have been "strongly adopted" by institutional and retail investors and expect that trend to gather pace locally as investors have better options to participate in this shift via a "convenient ...

Briefcase launches five SMAs on Praemium

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... indexing platform Briefcase has partnered with Praemium to launch five separately managed accounts (SMA) for retail investors. The five diversified risk-based model portfolios of Conservative, Moderate, Balanced, Growth, and High Growth are now available ...

FundBase to launch platform for retail access to private markets

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025
FundBase, an investment fund infrastructure provider, is launching a platform to give Australian retail investors access to private markets. The company said it will be the first to offer local retail investors entry into private markets, which have ...

Binance Labs becomes a family office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2025
... ASIC alleges from 7 July 2022 to 21 April 2023, Binance offered crypto derivative products to 505 Australian retail investors who were misclassified as wholesale clients, representing 83% of its Australian client base.

Vanguard fined US$106m for investors' massive tax bill

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2025
... with gains resulting from a rebound in the financial markets following pandemic lows. Consequently, Investor TRF retail investors who did not switch and continued to hold their fund shares in taxable accounts faced historically larger capital gains distributions ...