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Whitehelm and Cisco to deliver digital city management

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
Whitehelm Capital are partnering with US IT giant Cisco to deliver low-cost "smart city" management services. The services include dynamic sensor-based street lighting; parking, traffic, security, water and waste management; and "eco-friendly" urban ...

Telstra Super CIO to leave fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
Telstra Super's chief investment officer is leaving the fund to join an Australian funds management giant. Jim Christensen will join the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) as managing director, global multi-asset on 11 January, reporting to the ...

Class amends IPO after AMP acquisitions

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2015
Class, the self-managed superannuation fund administrative software provider, has lost about 10,500 billable SMSF portfolios from its customer base following two acquisitions announced by AMP. AMP has informed Class it will be moving the SMSF portfolios ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
Slathered in Vaseline and leaping from a tiny pilot boat to embark on a gruelling 14 hour swim of the chilly English Channel might seem a far cry from running an alternative investment business out of sunny Brisbane, but Blue Sky founder and managing ...

NAB enters into MOU with Nippon Life

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
NAB has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Nippon Life to build a life insurance partnership. The goal, according to NAB's ASX statement, is to "[enter] a long-term partnership in life insurance product manufacturing," although NAB added ...

Senior fund manager leaves AMP Capital for Ausbil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Ausbil Investment Management has hired a senior portfolio manager from AMP Capital. Gian Pandit has joined the Sydney-based firm as deputy head of equities. He will be part of the portfolio construction committee along with chief executive officer and ...

California pension giants must divest from coal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
US pension fund giant CalPERS and CalSTRS must divest their positions in coal companies after a new bill was signed into law in California last week. California governor Edmund Brown announced the signing of the bill on his website. The move is in line ...

AMP trials tech-based advice solution

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
AMP is trialling a new advice solution which makes use of new technology to improve the customer experience. The pilot fits in with the financial services giant's aims to continue to improve service efficiencies and test new ways of delivering advice ...

PIMCO launches bank capital fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Bond giant PIMCO has launched a new global bank capital fund which aims to reduce risk for investors with large exposures to the big Australian banks. The PIMCO Capital Securities Fund offers investors a long-term, strategic allocation to the global ...

Japanese life giant to acquire rival

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
Nippon Life has announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Mitsui Life. Following industry speculation in August that Nippon, Japan's second-biggest life insurer, was planning to acquire Mitsui in September, the two companies have jointly announced ...