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WAM Capital founding director resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... advisory board member at the Australian Digital Currency Association and deputy chair of the Australian Computer Society's blockchain technical committee. "The board is delighted to welcome Dr Ryan as a director," Wilson said. "She is a highly experienced ...

Asset manager bets on blockchain for private equity audits

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2018
A 130-year-old wealth and asset manager is using blockchain - the latest technology reshaping financial services - to speed up the auditing of private equity lifecycle events. Northern Trust is assigning blockchain nodes to audit firms, which will give ...

GROW Super begins group insurance innovation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
GROW Super is partnering with one of the world's largest reinsurers to explore the potential for blockchain technology within group insurance. Entering a joint venture with Hannover Life Re Australasia, GROW will use R3's Corda blockchain infrastructure ...

Asset managers gearing for growth in 2018

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... differentiating capabilities and allocates budgets accordingly," she said. Artificial intelligence, robotics, big data and blockchain are all transforming the way asset and wealth managers work, but the human factor cannot be underestimated as new employment ...

Private wealth platform appoints ASX-listed corporate adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A blockchain-based private wealth platform that created China's first robo-advice solution appointed an ASX-listed corporate advisory firm for its initial coin offering (ICO). Bankorus, which now advises more than 200,000 high-net-worth investors representing ...

Blockchain saving mutual funds US$2.6bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
Switching to blockchain infrastructure can save the mutual funds industry US$2.6 billion in back office costs, latest Calastone research shows. The study, which surveyed 234 global mutual funds, measured the economic impact of blockchain and automation. ...

EY issues ICO theft warning

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... projects globally in 2017 that raised US$3.7 billion in funds - twice the volume of venture capital investments in blockchain projects. It found ICO investors are greatly at risk of losing funds via sites, stock exchanges, wallets and private keys being ...

Bitcoin bubble will burst in 2018: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... to soar. Last week, Apollo Capital accepted $50,000 buy-ins to invest and actively manage digital currencies, other blockchain-based assets and initial coin offerings (ICOs); and independent wealth management firm deVere Group introduced a cryptocurrency ...

Aussie crypto fund opens to wholesale investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... for February 1. Apollo Capital is accepting minimum buy-ins of $50,000 and will invest in digital currencies, other blockchain-based assets and initial coin offerings (ICOs). Described as an actively managed crypto fund, Apollo Capital offers "institutional ...

Venture capital sector booming but needs greater government support

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... Price said: "The applicability of innovative technologies, whether artificial intelligence and machine learning or blockchain, to different sectors will likely keep investors focused and investment high regardless of any pauses among specific industries." ...