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Fintech success insignificant so far: Fahy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... asset classes - we find ourselves long on coal when we should be long on clean, long on carparks when we should be long on Uber," Fahy said. "The future is not what it used to be. All of the settings the superannuation industry has in place are based ...

Sharing economy to reshape global real estate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... of institutional sales and consultant relations Mark Miness said there's a strong link between the sharing economy (think Uber and AirBnB) and the real estate sector, giving new meaning to the term 'clicks-and-mortar'. As more people live in cities ...

Liftoff imminent at Spaceship

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... its core. Spaceship hopes to invest 35% of all members' portfolios in technology companies such as Google, Facebook, and Uber, while providing a small offsetting allocation to defensive assets such as fixed interest securities and cash although according ...

Human Super pitches product designed for women

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAR 2017
Human Super, the latest superannuation product specifically crafted for women, will soon launch in Australia. Co-founded by Mike Walpole and Kuba Tymula, the product hopes to reach out to women who the co-founders see as massively underserved by the ...

Females and Gen Y expecting less

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... Gumtree or Airtasker as a means of making money, while one in seven has participated in the sharing economy, driving for Uber or listing their homes on Airbnb. Generation Y is also the most involved here, accounting for 55% of micro-entrepreneurs in ...

Saving super from Tinder sex bots

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... extraordinary amount of digital devices currently in circulation, and the growing customer expectations for ease-of-use services like Uber-esque frictionless payments and interconnected user experiences. Although super funds might see themselves as separate ...

Magellan eyes 'exponential growth' from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... the face of disruption in the camera and mobile phone industries in the late 1990s and early 2000s, as well as the rise of Uber more recently, Douglass said the funds positioning for the future was focused on companies' ability to keep pace with a new ...

Pre-retirees adopting sharing economy

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... Index. The bi-annual report measures the attitudes and behaviour of Australians towards sharing economy services, such as Uber Airbnb and eBay. The report revealed that the average amount earned by 55-64 year olds through the sharing economy increased ...

Millennials getting personal with ANZ robo-adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... that from an organisation's perspective, these ideas aren't that complex or difficult to implement. "The technology behind Uber isn't that complex. It's just about the approach; it's the idea of making a service streamlined and invisible," he said. Panelist ...

Saudi sovereign wealth fund flags US$3.5bn Uber investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, has invested US$3.5 billion ($4.8 billion) in ride sharing app Uber. The company will use some of the money, likely in the region of US$250 million, to help it expand in the Middle East. As ...