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EQT chair to stay on despite plans to depart

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... on October 28. Killen has been EQT's chair since 2007, having been a non-executive director since 2002. He is also chair of YBR's Board Risk Committee, Templeton Global Growth Fund and CCI Asset Management. Prior to this, he was AXA Asia Pacific group ...

YBR announces director resignation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Yellow Brick Road has announced the departure of a non-executive director. Melanie Kansil joined YBR in 2013, having previously been acting director of strategy and digital at Nine Entertainment. She replaced David Coleman, who went into politics and ...

YBR acquires News Corp platform

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... Yellow Brick Road has acquired News Corp's consumer-direct investment service brightday, which runs on the OneVue platform. YBR's statement said the acquisition forms part of its digital plans which included the release of robo-advice tool Guru in 2015. ...

YBR chair appoints two chief executives in business revamp

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
... Lawler has been appointed chief executive, wealth management. The appointments occur alongside the consolidation of disparate YBR businesses under two channels: Lending and Wealth Management. YBR executive chair Mark Bouris said consolidating the businesses ...

OneVue sees growth in RE services

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... the Sanlam REITWAY Global Fund, the ChinaAMC China Opportunities, the 188 Universal- Bond Fund, the NWQ Fiduciary Fund, the YBR Protected Equities Fund and the Tyche Growth Fund. OneVue's head of investment management Alex Wise said more in the international ...

YBR robo-advice to make Celebrity Apprentice debut

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... to the public via a Celebrity Apprentice Australia challenge. The Guru "pilot" was unveiled in June, and since then over 50 YBR practices are able to use the service. "Our network has been quick to support the roll out of Guru due to the incredible value ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... direction of equity markets." Earlier this month, NWQ announced that it had been selected by Yellow Brick Road to manage the YBR Protected Equities Fund which was designed to deliver returns that are similar to those of the overall share market whilst ...

OneVue close to turning profit

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... which generated additional revenue. OneVue was also behind Yellow Brick Road's recently launched robo advice solution, guru.ybr.com.au. These initiatives helped boost revenue year on year from $7.35 million to $17.9 million, a 143% increase over FY2014. ...

YBR launches robo-advice platform

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... Brick Road is launching GURU, a robo-advice platform that generates a holistic financial "roadmap." GURU is the first step in YBR's new low-cost advice model, and it can factor in savings, investments, liabilities, insurance and financial goals to project ...

YBR boutique wins $50 million mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
Boutique fixed income manager Smarter Money Investments, a joint venture between Coolabah Capital Investments and Yellow Brick Road, has been awarded a $50 million institutional mandate. SMI's Smarter Money Active Cash Fund (Assisted Units) also received ...