Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1271 - 1280 of 2489 results for "SPAC"

Wealth and investment leads Aussie fintech

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
Wealth and investment is one of Australia's largest fintech sub-sectors according to an industry representative group. Releasing its first member ecosystem map, FinTech Australia showed wealth and investment sits alongside consumer and business lending ...

Human Super appoints inaugural chief executive

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
A former head of investment trusts marketing at J.P. Morgan Asset Management has been appointed the inaugural chief executive of Human Super. Pascale Helyar-Moray will take leadership of the newly launched product effective immediately and hopes to ...

The changing face of underwriting

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
Facial analytics may play a key role in calculating future life insurance premiums thanks to a North Carolina technology firm claiming its platform returns lifespan estimates more accurate than traditional methods. Lapetus Life Event Solutions recently ...

UBS expands Australian fixed income team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
UBS Asset Management Australia welcomed a new specialist to its fixed income team. Patrick Jung, formerly of REST Super, joined the asset manager's Sydney-based team this month, supporting communication and interaction with clients and research consultants. ...

Global real estate investors too nonchalant: Man GPM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
Investors will benefit from focusing on defensive strategies within property portfolios as the overall real estate market may be gearing up for a correction. Man Global Private Markets' co-head of real assets Mikko Syrjanen believes there are too many ...

Colonial First State platforms make deferred annuities more accessible

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
Advisers will soon have access to Challenger's deferred lifetime annuities through Colonial First State platforms. Speaking at an adviser event in Sydney yesterday, CFS head of retail platforms Sam Wall announced that from 1 July 2017, Challenger products ...

GSFM hires Macquarie exec

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
Grant Samuel Funds Management has appointed a new compliance officer. Stuart Osborne joins GSFM from Macquarie, where he held multiple positions since 2002, including compliance and op risk executive, credit analyst, operational risk manager, and associate ...

Insurtech here to stay: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
Digital insurance technology companies or 'insurtechs' are failing to exploit opportunities in the industry, a new study found. Joint research conducted by global consulting firm Oliver Wyman and German insurance startup Policen Direkt shows the second ...

Top trends reshaping Aussie superannuation

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
The rise of the post-retirement specialist, increasing tech-savvy membership bases, and greater demand for online, real-time advice are major trends reshaping the Australian superannuation industry, according to software provider Bravura Solutions. ...

Advice network buys into accounting industry

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
An advice network nearing $5 billion in assets under management is now taking on the accounting sector with the acquisition of a full-service accountancy firm. AZ Next Generation Advisory recently acquired Peters and Partners, a firm established in ...