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Bravura acquires software firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... Aegon and Nucleus," Bravura said. The software company said the acquisition was made in a bid to deepen Bravura's technical capabilities, creating a compelling opportunity to deliver "plug and play" solutions to a broader addressable market. "The ...

Chief economist update: It's the money, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... paraphrase former US president Bill Clinton, it's the money, stupid. Here's what the Fed's recently announced "technical measure" (no, it's not QE) looks like in its balance sheet....and monthly change in the total amount.

Whistleblower calls out approved product lies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
... research in Australia were motivated by an altruistic desire to help advisers interpret and understand complicated, technical and sometimes 'unsafe' policies, the purveyors of which practiced zero adviser training or education on the policy terms ...

MLC Life strengthens group insurance team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... MLC Life's group insurance business effective this month, focused on new superannuation funds. Wu was most recently technical partnership manager at AIA Australia. She has also held senior product roles with CommInsure and previously worked in dispute ...

Chief economist update: When QE is not QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... banks with more liquidity". It looks like you! But nah, the US Federal Reserve is adamant it is not. It's just a "technical" measure, even publishing an explanation for the why not. "Large scale asset purchases [QE] conducted by the Federal Reserve ...

Major funds expand with Singapore investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
Whitehelm Capital has completed the acquisition of the Institute of Technical Education College West PPP Project in Singapore on behalf of MTAA Super and Prime Super. The education center was previously owned by Gammon Investments and Jardine Matherson ...

Glitch hits ASX-listed managed funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... Platinum Asia (quoted managed hedge fund) which feeds into the $4.3 billion Platinum Asia Fund. "We advise that the technical issue associated with the iNAV promulgation for OIX which resulted in market making being temporarily paused, has now been resolved," ...

Support staff should meet FASEA standards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
BT head of financial literacy and advocacy Bryan Ashenden told the Financial Standard and Challenger Technical Services Forum that FASEA standards should raise questions for support staff as well as advisers. Appearing at the event yesterday, Ashenden ...

Super debate too one dimensional: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... was an opportunity for an integrated approach, but warned it would fail if it contributed to the "growing mountain of "technical debt" from decades of ad-hoc policy development."

Chief economist update: Wheels of US recession in motion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
... inverted US yield curve says so, no matter how it's justified. The inverted yield curve was dismissed as being due to "technical factors such as a flight to quality or global economic or currency situations that trigger demand for long-term bonds" ...