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British MPs prod own pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
UK members of parliament have backed a call to offload any fossil fuel investments held in the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund. More than 240 serving and former MPs have signed the 'Divest Parliament' pledge, calling on the fund's trustees to ...

Financial tech firm refocuses strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
An ASX-listed financial planning technology company will reconfigure its strategy following an unsuccessful pilot partnership with Commonwealth Financial Planning. Intiger will refocus its strategy on developing and marketing its BOOM software after ...

Super fund achieves first carbon neutral portfolio

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
An $11 billion superannuation fund has achieved carbon neutral certification by the Australian Government for its buildings and property portfolio. Local Government Super's portfolio was rated by NABERS, a New South Wales Government administered ...

Major instos hit with cartel class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
Maurice Blackburn today filed a class action in the Federal Court suing UBS, Barclays, Citibank, Royal Bank of Scotland and JP Morgan. The class action alleges the banks colluded to rig foreign exchange rates during a period between January 2008 and ...

Zenith acquires New Zealand firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
Investment research provider, Zenith Investment Partners is in the process of acquiring an overseas business as it expands into offshore markets. Zenith has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with NZX Limited to acquire New Zealand ...

Calastone blockchain goes live

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
The global funds network that has transacted for over 1100 funds in its Australian network has gone live with blockchain-powered infrastructure. Calastone has migrated 1800 customers from 41 markets to the new distributed market infrastructure (DMI). ...

Crypto scams bite UK

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
Investors in the United Kingdom lost more than £27 million to cryptoasset and forex scams in the last year. The Financial Conduct Authority is urging UK citizens to be wary of investment scams carried out through "bogus" online trading platforms, after ...

Fintech no real threat: Researcher

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
Australia's big banks are well placed to defend their position against fintechs hoping to disrupt the industry, according to a new report from Moody's. While fintechs may be seen to pose a growing threat, large banks have the financial resources to ...

Couple faces prison over ponzi-style scam

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
A ponzi-style investment scheme that defrauded Collingwood Magpies fans out of more than $800,000 has seen one man convicted on dishonesty charges while his wife is already serving time for fraud offences. Douglas Johnston was found guilty on nine dishonesty ...

ASFA chief joins Irish software provider

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
The chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has joined a Dublin-based provider of software to the life insurance sector. FINEOS announced Martin Fahy will join its board as non-executive director. Currently chief executive ...