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Chief economist update: The Fed should act now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... economics student, I never much cared about economic history. What good does economic history offer? The agricultural revolution gave way to the revolution in industry and now... the tech revolt. Surely, things and the way of doing things have evolved ...

Channel Capital signs on new partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... sovereign bond manager Jamieson Coote Bonds; Mark Landau's long-short boutique L1 Capital; private debt manager Revolution Asset Management; Aussie small caps manager Discovery Asset Management; farmland manager Gunn Agri; clean energy and infrastructure ...

BlackRock and Microsoft develop retirement platform

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
BlackRock will partner with the global technology giant to develop a new retirement platform. Noting the responsibility for retirement planning now rests with millions of Americans, Microsoft has partnered with BlackRock, and the two global giants intend ...

Sahota's fund makes first close

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... first close, attracting an investor base of superannuation funds, family offices and other sophisticated investors. The Revolution Private Debt Fund I announced a first close on Wednesday. A second close is scheduled for 30 April 2019 with a maximum ...

ANZ launches underwriting engine to market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
ANZ's life insurance arm has released its predictive underwriting technology following a successful soft launch. The big data-powered underwriting engine will allow customers applying for OneCare insurance to complete personal statements 30% faster. ...

Beware the fintech Ponzi scheme

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
... posing as P2P platforms. In a paper released by the SWIFT Institute titled "Quo Vadis? A comparison of the fintech revolution in China and the West", the joint authors Dr. Bonnie Buchanan and Dr. Cathy Xuying Cao provided a comprehensive report of the ...

Digital custody evolutionary, not revolutionary: SIBOS

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
A SIX executive told SIBOS delegates moving to a complete digital custody system in one go would prove to be a challenge for the global financial services industry. Speaking at the SIBOS conference in Sydney on Tuesday morning, SIX head of product management ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... and to instead call the new agreement "USMCA," for United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. It's not a total trade revolution, as Trump promised, but USMCA does make substantial changes to modernize trade rules in effect from 1994 to 2020, and it give ...

Wealth fintech strengthens leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... represents this perfectly. She is an absolute leader in her field of expertise having lived through the advice technology revolution. She has an incredibly determined work ethic and she's a lot of fun. We are delighted that Helen is joining the team," ...

Investors sharpen watch on RMBS

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... RMBS as at May 31. Also this year, fixed income veteran Bob Sahota and Simon Petris launched private debt boutique Revolution Asset Management. About 15% of its model portfolio is in RMBS. Kapstream manages $12.5 billion in fixed income investments. ...