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SelfWealth announces new product offerings

Peer-to-peer investment start-up SelfWealth is preparing to launch two products at the end of this month aimed at addressing “the frustrations” that consumers face in financial advice today. Known as SelfWealth INTELLIGENCE and TRADING, founder Andrew Ward said the two products are targeted at simplifying stock trading by allowing a larger number of investors to enter the market and take control of their investments. “We’re a peer-to-peer investing group that uses the intelligence of the community to construct portfolios for investors,” Ward said. “Fintech is all about challenging the current norm [and] the end consumer is the number one piece in the puzzle. When you focus on that, [you are] […]

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Announcing a new partnership: Republic Wealth Management

Sharesight are pleased to announce a new partner, Republic Wealth Management. Republic is a robo-adviser catering to financial planning companies. They take care of the portfolio construction, execution, and on-going management of portfolios on behalf of financial planning companies. The portfolios consist mainly of ETFs. Republic and the advisers they serve will be utilising a branded edition of Sharesight and API to administer and report on client portfolios. This B-to-B approach makes sense. One of the challenges for any asset manager is convincing people to hand over money. This is especially true in the online advice space, which by nature lacks face-to-face meetings and a track record. Portfolios constructed of […]

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About FinTech

About FinTech The global events that occurred in the mid 2000's provided the perfect storm for this emerging industry. The GFC meant that experienced people lost their jobs, there was declining costs involved for startups and an increasing number of new graduates with no industries to enter, meant the talent that usually advanced the banks' dominance were encouraged to build their own businesses. The enormous success of early entrants such as PayPal and Square has had a profound effect on the industry with smart people the world over making products that focus on the user not the “middleman” (bank/incumbent). As more and more people are discovering FinTech they are realising […]
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