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Omega appoints former Northward director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... background in this space dovetails perfectly for Omega, its existing capability and its ambitions as the pre-eminent provider of smart portfolio design that meets the specific outcomes of its investors." Moore added: "This is a perfect alignment of interest ...

SelectingSuper announces super fund of the year

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... Product of the Year. In the full service multi-choice awards, IOOF Employer Super won the Workplace Product of the Year; ANZ Smart Choice Super won the Personal Product of the Year; and Colonial First State - FirstChoice Wholesale Pension won the Retirement ...

Omega hires Vanguard, NAB vets

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... where she was a performance analyst. Prior to that, she was a research and finance analyst at Empower Wealth. Omega is a smart beta-focused investment manager based in Melbourne. It currently manages over $3.2 billion for domestic and international clients ...

Insurers to battle big data privacy concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
While big data presents a boon for insurers doing customer risk analysis, the benefits will have to be weighed against ongoing user privacy and discrimination issues. This is one of the key findings of the Actuaries Institutes' latest green paper, which ...

Smart beta performs in Aussie equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
The top three performing exchange-traded products dedicated to Australian equities over the past year were smart beta strategies, a new Rainmaker report shows. Rainmaker's ETP Report for the September quarter shows a wide range of outcomes in the past ...

Super execs: Size is not scale

ALEX BURKE, ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... years, and 80% of our investment choices have top quartile performance," Proebstl said. Reinforcing the powerful impact of smart management can have in a super fund, Telstra Super chief executive Chris Davies said scale can also be achieved by smaller ...

CBA partners to capitalise on Chinese tourism

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... solution that allows Chinese tourists and Chinese students to make payments in Australian stores via Alipay and CBA's Albert smart payment tablet, creating efficiencies for both merchants and the 19,000 Chinese tourists that visit Australia every week. ...

European manager launches China ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... A50 Index ETF tracks the 50 biggest A Share stocks listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen exchanges. Amundi ETF, Indexing and Smart Beta global head of product development and capital markets Matthieu Guignard said: "We decided to launch this ETF tracking ...

CBA in world-first blockchain transaction

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... banks. The trade also employed the use of agreements that can automatically execute certain conditions of itself, known as smart contracts, and the Internet of Things; the internetworking of devices and data-gathering sensors. According to CBA, the $35,000 ...

Bravura appoints account management head

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... for four years. Prior to that, he was a principal consultant at SunGard Wealth Management, and has held senior roles at Smart Service Queensland, Sunsuper and Citistreet (which was acquired by Sunsuper in 2008). "I am delighted that Ron has chosen to ...