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Financial Conduct Authority cracks down on finfluencers, firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2024
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is cracking down on finfluencers as more financial services firms turn to social media to promote products and services. The financial services regulator is aiming to get on top of firms that illegally promote ...

Young investors fall prey to bad social media advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2023
... firm Nationwide, investors aged 15 to 54 years old tend to trust advice generated by social media, particularly from finfluencers and generative artificial intelligence (AI). Older investors, on the other hand, are more cautious about online financial ...

ASX-listed firms partner for financial education

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2023
... have taken this option away from many people." According to ASIC estimates, some 33% of young Australians listen to finfluencers for financial advice. "We need new ways of educating Australians to improve their financial literacy and confidence. Helping ...

Finfluencers bridge financial advice gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
One year since ASIC forced finfluencers to obtain a general advice licence or else, finfluencers playing by the rules are reaching financially illiterate and disengaged Australians in a way that traditional advice has failed to. Finfluencers backed ...

Young, millionaire investors challenge stereotypes: Data

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... portfolio's year-on-year," it commented. "In an era where young people are often associated with 'hype' stocks, finfluencers and short-term wins, it is interesting to see this is not necessarily reality. Our data shows younger Australians are ...

ACCC blitzes social media influencers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2023
... decisions," Jones said. Meanwhile, the latest VanEck Australian Investor survey shows that investors have shunned "finfluencers" for expert advice on products. Most investors (72%) don't use social media for investment research and only 24% support the ...

Regulators to face committee scrutiny

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... Representatives Standing Committee on Economics tomorrow to discuss super fund underperformance, greenwashing and the rise of finfluencers. In what will be the committee's first public hearings into the regulators, committee chair Daniel Mulino MP said ...

ASIC research guides retail investment regulations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022
... Specifically pertaining to financial influencers, as previously reported by Financial Standard, ASIC issued a warning to finfluencers who discuss financial products and the licensees who use them, threatening substantial penalties of their content contravenes ...

Equity Story plans to throw finfluencers a lifeline

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2022
... wider mission, adding that Equity Story is in discussions with several popular personal finance commentators and "finfluencers" to onboard them as authorised representatives of its licence, following ASIC's warning earlier this year as to the penalties ...

We knew people would leave the advice industry: Hume

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2022
... standards, onerous compliance or digital disruption that have reformed the industry. Hume was also unperturbed by the finfluencers that have begun to fill the hole left by the exodus of advisers. Hume said: "I love the fact young people are engaging ...
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