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Financial services workers content with pandemic changes

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
New research shows that more than half of financial services employees agree that the industry has reacted positively to shifts in the industry as a result of the pandemic. The latest Work Different study from experience management software provider ...

thedocyard details merger, proposes raise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
Digital dealtech company thedocyard has entered into a heads of agreement to acquire 100% of tech company Ansarada and has announced a $45 million capital raise to help fund the transaction. Upon completion, the merger will form a leading global software ...

How to make sense of reporting season

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... approximately 0.5-1%, while Europe and the UK have received revisions of -1.5-2%. Wilsons pointed to Europe's underweight in tech giants for this diversion. Wilsons said this pattern of very modest earnings changes is symptomatic of the uncertainty in ...

New 'cash plus' style sovereign bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
Jamieson Coote Bonds has launched an absolute return fixed income fund aiming to deliver 2.5% above cash rate while investing only in sovereign debt. The CC JCB Dynamic Alpha fund will hold high-grade sovereign bonds from G7 nations and Australia, with ...

Take your CAPE ratio with a grain of salt

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... prior to Black Tuesday in 1929 (often considered the prelude to the Great Depression), from June 1997 until August 2001 (the tech boom and bust), and at the end of 2017 until October 2018 - after which Wall Street posted its worst yearly performance ...

Industry veterans launch dealer group

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... Brett Walker (who also sits on the dealer group's investment committee). The group is still actively looking for other advice tech companies to partner with, with El Shammaa noting that, thus far, the pair had not been able to find a single tech stack ...

Law firm slams insurer mental health policies

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Slater and Gordon has criticised life insurers for proposing to dictate who can and can't access mental health treatment through their funding programs. Calls from the life insurance industry for regulatory freedom to allow life companies to be ...

Platform business in administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
IFM Investors and Regal backed Spitfire has appointed administrators, as it looks to restructure the group after a shareholder reneged on promised funding. Olvera Advisors' Damien Hodgkinson and Kate Barnet were appointed as joint and several voluntary ...

Class announces $4.2m acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
Class announced that it has executed an agreement to buy 100% of Assuriti (Smartcorp) for $4.2 million as it reported a 15% increase in FY19 operating revenue. The acquisition compromises an upfront cash payment of $2.73 million upon completion, plus ...

HESTA awards three-year mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
HESTA has awarded a three -year mandate to an administrator following a competitive tender process. Link Group has been reappointed to provide the $53 billion super fund with retirement and superannuation solutions. The mandate is for an initial three ...