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Raiz Invest hits $1bn in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2021
... the growth of the platform in Australia was a positive indicator of how the company might perform as it expands into Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. "The popularity of the Raiz app is illustrated by the 500,000 Australians who have invested with us ...

MSCI reclassifies Pakistan to frontier market

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
... liquidity. Pakistan was classified as an emerging market alongside other Asia countries of India, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Philippines. Now it joins its Asian peers of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam which are also frontier ...

APAC pension funds fastest growing: Study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2021
... plans in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, UK and US.

Fund administrator hires from competitor

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... Ascent was founded in 2019 and currently has 150 clients with $9 billion under management. It has clients in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Japan. It set its sights on Australia earlier this year, as it saw an opportunity in the market following ...

Fund administrator eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
... Council's annual tally of the sector. Ascent was founded in 2019 and has fund administration clients in Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, mainland China and Japan. SS&C and Apex Group are currently in a bidding war for the ASX-listed Mainstream ...

Citi to exit consumer banking in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... Citi is exiting consumer banking entirely in a number of markets including Australia. China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Bahrain's Citi consumer franchises will also be impacted. However ...

ERS dents Raiz Super by $13m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... Invest chief executive George Lucas sees FUM growing to $1 billion by the end of this year. "The growth in Indonesia and Malaysia continues to exceed our expectations and we remain confident that we will be able to repeat the success of the Australian ...

Australian banks among most fined

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
Australian banks have taken the inauspicious title of second most fined in the world for 2020, according to new data. The research from Finbold found that US banks had to pay the most in fines of anywhere in the world - with 12 fines against US banks ...

ClearView streamlines underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... Lowe said. Other life insurers that have adopted ALLFINANZ Cloud are Prudential Thailand, Generali Indonesia, Hong Leong Malaysia and FT Life Hong Kong. US technology firm Omniscience announced in April that it has developed an underwriting function ...

AIA under fire for coal holdings

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... of approximately $125 million in Tenaga Nasional Berhad. "Tenaga operates more than 26,000 megawatt of power plants in Malaysia and other countries, 54% of which consist of coal power capacity," it said. "In 2013 AIA's wholly owned subsidiary Philam ...