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Real estate investment veteran to depart

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
The head of strategic partnerships at a $60 billion real estate investment manager will retire at the end of the year, bringing a 40 year career at the firm to a close. Ian Mackie is set to retire from LaSalle Investment Management at the end of this ...

Quantifeed eyes Australian expansion with $13.5m raising

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... Standard. The five-year-old fintech has now raised a total of $24 million. This includes today's $13.5 million, a series A funding of $6 million in 2016 and prior seed capital. It currently has one client in Australia, an online securities broker ...

Mutual expands wealth management leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
One of Australia's oldest mutual companies is expanding the leadership of its wealth management division, appointing a general manager of commercial and structured finance. Australian Unity is appointing Emily O'Brien to the newly created role. ...

Former wealth group chief joins Macrovue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
... expertise to assist with the next stage of Macrovue's evolution. "To help with this growth phase, we will be embarking on a Series A capital raising round to scale the business and leverage the successes we have seen to date." Late last year Macrovue ...

Financial Standard launches Good Investment Guide, Investment Leadership Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
Financial Standard this week released the first edition of 'The Good Investment Guide - Managed Funds Edition', an educational investment handbook aimed at self-directed investors and finance professionals. The guide features a primer on the managed ...

Venture capital sector booming but needs greater government support

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... growth has been coupled with an evolution in how investors approach start-up ventures - a shift towards pre and post-series A funding. Price added seed and angel funding are still a vital part of the start-up ecosystem. While the number of deals fell ...

AMP adds LIF resources as deadline looms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
Advisers transitioning their business to meet the new requirements imposed by the Life Insurance Framework are being provided with additional resources by AMP. The institution boosted its LIF resource hub, adding a new series of video tutorials developed ...

Financial services firms eye machine learning

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
Machine learning is transforming the way financial services operates, as a growing number of Australian firms are adopting it to make sense of big data and to improve productivity. According to Bloomberg, more than half (55%) of Australian financial ...

VanEck partners to launch ETF model portfolios

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
VanEck will launch a range of model portfolios to advisers using exchange-traded funds, in partnership with an investment researcher. Using Lonsec's portfolio construction research, the VanEck ETF Model Portfolio series comprises balanced, growth and ...

New IOOF funds receive 'recommended' rating

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
The new MultiSeries funds launched by IOOF this week have each received a 'Recommended' rating from Lonsec. The researcher said that the IOOF MultiSeries 30, IOOF MultiSeries 50, IOOF MultiSeries 70 and IOOF MultiSeries 90 funds are all managed by a ...