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Super admin provider adds chief information officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... she said. "But at OneVue, we are fortunate to have global custodians and banks as clients and this has introduced institutional grade rigour to the table. Which means we can work with all clients, large and small, to innovate and embrace new technologies ...

NZ Super awards $300m mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has awarded a $298 million (US$215m) risk-arbitrage mandate to a diversified international investment manager. Neuberger Berman won the customised mandate and its principal strategies group will oversee the investments. ...

Sydney fintech sells for $339m

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
Financial services software giant Temenos is buying customer acquisition and onboarding technology company Avoka for $339 million (US$245 million). Avoka's success story begins in Australia. Temenos chief operating officer and chief financial officer ...

Centrepoint pulls out of NEOS Life

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
Centrepoint Alliance will no longer back life insurance startup NEOS Life, requesting its investment be repaid in full sooner than originally agreed to. In line with its recent strategy refresh, a review of Centrepoint's assets and interests determined ...

Schroders hires former Hunter Hall portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... June end. It managed $39.2 billion for Australian clients at October end. Its Australian business is focused on institutional and wholesale clients. It has a team of 95 in Sydney, with domestic research and investment teams in Australian equities, fixed ...

Mercer names senior investment consultant

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... will help grow its investment consulting business. Rebecca Jacques joins as a senior investment consultant in the Institutional Wealth Pacific team. Jacques is the former general manager of the Australian Goals Based Advice Association, a role she held ...

UBS announces major asset management partnerships

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
A Melbourne-based fund manager will now be the investment manager for all of UBS Asset Management's Australian equities funds. A Sydney property manager will also pick up UBS' listed A-REITs fund. UBS Asset Management chief executive for Australia ...

FIIG turns to institutional market

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
FIIG Securities has made a series of appointments over 2018 to assist its growth in the institutional fixed income market. FIIG, which has $8 billion in securities under advice, officially announced the appointments of three directors and an associate ...

DomaCom raises more capital

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... this week, the firm said it secured $2.95 million in funding by issuing a convertible security to a Melbourne-based institutional investor, Thundering Herd. DomaCom said the security would carry a two-year term and pay an annual 15% coupon rate quarterly ...

Super funds defend $5bn infrastructure investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
A consortium including several of Australia's largest superannuation funds will contest allegations from the ACCC that a 2013 purchase of two New South Wales ports breached competition law. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has ...