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Sequoia buys general insurance book

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2021
... business assets, and independent premium funding company. It has also secured a new general insurance AFSL which will allow SEQ General Insurance to operate in the same way Interprac Financial Planning does for risk advisers, and compete with other general ...

Shaw and Partners awards tech mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2021
The $28 billion wealth management firm awarded a mandate to a local fintech as it looks to enhance its client onboarding experience. Shaw and Partners implemented LAB Group's white labelled client onboarding solution, LABform, to support financial advisers ...

Australian Ethical makes strategic investment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2021
Australian Ethical has made a strategic investment in Main Sequence, a deep technology investment fund founded by the CSIRO. Main Sequence welcomed the investment, saying that it will apply venture capital to play a role in solving challenges in health ...

MySuper continues stellar performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
MySuper products continue to deliver returns averaging 20% at the end of July, Rainmaker analysis shows. Rainmaker's MySuper Index returned 19.2% in the year to July 2021, surpassing June's rolling one-year return by 40 basis points. This makes July ...

Adviser support services a boon for Sequoia

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2021
Sequoia Financial Group continues to benefit from the highly competitive sector of financial adviser support services, which doubled its revenues in the last two years. Sequoia's wealth division, which provides licensee services to over 400 authorised ...

Goldman Sachs hires for family office offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
Goldman Sachs has made two key appointments to lead its planned private wealth offering in Australia. The firm is building a local private wealth team to serve family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals. Chris Kavanagh and Aaron Shirley have ...

Packhorse acquires inaugural property

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
The Packhorse Pastoral Company has secured its first property located in Queensland after raising $62.5 million. The agricultural asset manager acquired Stuart's Creek, an 8360-hectare parcel of land located 45 kilometres north-west of Roma, Queensland. ...

Sequoia launches family office

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
In its latest move to expand its wealth business, Sequoia Financial Group has launched the Sequoia Family Office. The new business will target local ultra-high and high-net-worth investors with between $5 million and $100 million in investable funds. ...

Super funds back space travel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2021
Several industry superannuation funds are helping fuel the mission of a spacecraft technology start-up that is due to orbit into space in 2022. HESTA, Hostplus and NGS Super are part of a consortium backing Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies. ...

Chief economist update: Chinese activity indicators disappoint but growth target intact

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Disappointing. This is the one word that describes the latest batch of activity indicators out of China. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released retail sales, industrial production and fixed asset investment that were still stronger than usual ...