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Prominent executive links with VFMC board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
Victorian Funds Management Corporation is strengthening its board with the appointment of a prominent financial services executive. The Victorian public sector fund manager is welcoming Fiona Trafford-Walker to its board, in a move designed to deepen ...

Software provider wins European asset management mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
A European asset management giant has signed a long-term contract with an ASX-listed wealth management and funds administration software provider. Legal and General Unit Trust Mangers (UTM), has signed a long-term contract with Bravura Solutions, with ...

QIC continues US expansion

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
The chief executive of $85 billion investment manager QIC has two new direct reports. QIC appointed Leonie Wilkinson as the new executive director of its global clients and marketing division, shifting her from her current role at the investment giant ...

Aussie HNWI population grows: Capgemini

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
Latest research from digital consultant Capgemini shows Australia's high-net-worth individual (HNWI) population is growing, with more than 20,000 Aussies joining the fold in 2017. According to Capgemini's 2018 World Wealth Report, Australia's HNWI population ...

Quantifeed eyes Australian expansion with $13.5m raising

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
The fintech is looking to expand its B2B robo-advice business in Australia as a part of a $13.5 million venture capital raising announced today. The series B funding was led by Taiwanese giant Cathay Financial Holdings, with participation from US-based ...

US giant acquires Aussie super consulting business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
An NYSE-listed global insurance brokerage and risk management firm is acquiring an Australian superannuation consulting services company along with its technology-based sister firm as part of a continued play into the Australian wealth market. Arthur ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...

AMP slides off ASX top 20

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
AMP will no longer be on the S&P/ASX 20 index when trading opens on June 18, following a quarterly rebalance of S&P's Australian indices announced today. AMP's spot on the index will be taken by packaging manufacturer Amcor. The wealth giant ...

Global investment giant to acquire Investa fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
One of the world's biggest private equity managers submitted an all cash proposal to acquire an ASX-listed Investa fund. Blackstone's indicative and non-binding proposal is to acquire the Investa Office Fund (IOF) at a price of $5.25 per unit ...

Insurtechs must work with incumbents: EY

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
Australian insurtechs are more of a complementary addition to the existing insurance value chain than disruptors, according to a new study by Ernst & Young. EY's report Insurtech: Enabler or disruptor? was produced in collaboration with insurTech Australia. ...