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UniSuper hire bolsters customer experience focus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... ensure it is on the front foot of innovation, she added. "The capability that Brendan is building in his team will sit at the core of UniSuper being a successful, 'customer-obsessed' organisation," she said.

VFMC welcomes former Australia Post Super executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... said Martinez has taken on a senior role within the portfolio management team. "The portfolio management team incorporates core functions that operate across the entire portfolio, such as portfolio strategy and construction, implementation/trading, investment ...

Members abandon bank-aligned group insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... to service high-net-worth clients via JBWere, it is shedding the rest of its wealth operations so as to become "focused on core banking." NAB said options for the sale include a demerger or an initial public offering, and that it is targeting listing ...

$26 billion real estate group shuffles portfolio

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... provide market-leading shopping, dining and entertainment experiences. Accordingly, we are divesting up to $1 billion of non-core assets to fund the acceleration of our strategy," Kelley said. The $1 billion sale is expected to reduce the company's ...

Chief economist update: Rush hour is over for the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... slowed to 2.4% in the year to April from the six-year high of 3.0% recorded at the beginning of 2018. More important, the core CPI inflation rate has dropped to the BOE's target rate of 2% in April, the third straight month of deceleration from January's ...

Australian Unity Trustees signs tech partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... fortify its trustee business. Australian Unity Trustees has selected Bravura Solutions' Garradin platform to provide its core operating system. The implementation of Garradin is a key part of Australian Unity Trustees' ongoing business transformation ...

Super scorecard to shift consumer playing field

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... introducing the scorecard at its 2018 leadership forum in Canberra today. The scorecard is based on an integration of five core capabilities: strategy and governance, understanding and engaging consumers, financial advice, investment strategies and products ...

Liquidnet and OTAS ramp up AI play

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... process." Speaking to OTAS' approach to artificial intelligence and its future success, Doris said AI had always been at the core of the firm's operation. It will work to deliver better trading performance because it will be able to anticipate ...

Chief economist update: Building approvals on a slowing trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) latest update on building approvals is consistent with views of slowing activity in the country's housing market. But perhaps, not as dire as the headline seasonally-adjusted monthly numbers suggest. ...

Big data's big retirement benefits

DARREN SNYDER, STEPHEN FAY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... head of defined contribution and retirement, Lesley-Anne Morgan said the industry can do better than its generic answers to core retirement questions such as "how much do I need", saying that the use of either expenditure data trends or public government ...