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Industry fund launches assistant on Google Home

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
One of Australia's largest industry superannuation funds has integrated its virtual assistant with Google Home. Rest has joined its virtual assistant Roger with Google Home, allowing members to ask the device common questions and receive spoken answers. ...

SSGA launches ESG-heavy strategy for Aussie instos

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
State Street Global Advisors is introducing a new low carbon, high ESG international equities fund for Australian institutional investors. Partnering with MSCI, the State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust is the next iteration ...

Industry fund transformation sees rebrand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
One of Australia's largest industry superannuation funds has rebranded as part of its renewed focus on customer service. REST Industry Super will rebrand to Rest with a new visual identity and logo. Interim chief executive Andrew Howard said the change ...

Industry fund launches lifecycle default option

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
A $7 billion industry superannuation fund is launching a default option that will automatically adjust with members' age. The Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund's LifetimeOne option, to be launched in May, aims to give members better ...

Kapstream creates new fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... the next three months. It will be distributed in to the wholesale market through Challenger's Fidante Partners. The fund launch comes at a time when investors have been drawn to the Kapstream Absolute Return Income strategy and similar products. Morningstar's ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... institution is placing $225 million with Aviva Investors to be the asset manager's cornerstone investor for its latest fund launch in Australia. Last month Aviva Investors chief executive Euan Munro revealed the firm, via its new mandate win, would establish ...

Aussie crypto fund opens to wholesale investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... the team we have built and the partnerships we have formed as we take next step," he said. Applications ahead of the fund launch will close on January 25 and the fund will thereafter be open to new investors on a monthly basis, Apollo said. The call ...

Aussie currency drives fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2018
A $600 billion global asset manager is running its first Australian dollar money market fund, responding to institutional and wholesale investor demand from across Asia Pacific. HSBC Global Asset Management launched its first Australian Dollar Liquidity ...

LIC fund reopens to investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
A boutique fund manager is reopening one of its funds for the entire month of December. Affluence Funds Management's LIC Fund invests purely in ASX listed investment companies (LICs), holding 31 LICs at the end of October. Affluence Funds Management ...

Global asset manager expands Australian offering

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... clients in July. PineBridge Investments managing director, Australia, Clinton Grobler said local investors drove the fund launch, signalling the need for a defensive approach to investing in the higher-yielding asset class. "With additional interest ...