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Quantifeed launches portfolio for car lovers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
Investment and robo-advice platform provider Quantifeed has created a model portfolio that taps the growing global industry of driverless cars. The model portfolio comprises companies that are leading the development of self-driving cars, including ...

Sunsuper acquires multi-million dollar shopping centre

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  SATURDAY, 8 JUL 2017
Sunsuper is purchasing a major shopping centre in sub-regional New South Wales, marking the $45 billion super fund's first direct retail acquisition. Marketown Shopping Centre in Newcastle is being acquired by AMP Capital on behalf of Sunsuper for about ...

AustralianSuper posts annual investment results

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
Australia's largest superannuation fund, with more than $120 billion under management, has returned double digit returns for balanced account members. After taxes and fees, the investment option returned 12.44% for the 2016-17 financial year. According ...

Cameron Hume hires fixed income expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
International fixed income manager Cameron Hume hired an industry specialist to help grow its investment management capabilities. Russ Oxley, founder of Avrox Investment Solutions will work with the firm on a consultancy basis to develop strategic investment ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

Optimo introduces robo platform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
Optimo Financial is releasing its online financial modelling solution for advisers as it aims to make the provision of goals-based advice more seamless. The Optimo Pathfinder personal finance modelling system is now available to dealer groups, financial ...

MLC Life partners to accelerate underwriting process

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
The underwriting process is about to get easier for customers of MLC Life Insurance as the firm becomes the first in Australia to offer UK underwriting rules engine UnderwriteMe. Partnering with the engine's proprietary owner Pacific Life Re, MLC Life ...

Vamos joins Mercer board

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... is committed to building its expertise in the superannuation space. Mercer Australia managing director and chief executive, Ben Walsh, added that Vamos will bring a diversity of experience, attributes, and skills to the board. "The superannuation industry ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
Were it not for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's "package of gifts" delivered on America's 4th of July Independence Day celebrations, the goings-on in China would remain buried on page 6 of the financial media. This could be because when it comes to ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
No one expected the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise or lower the official cash rate from its current 1.5% when its board met on the 4 July, but only a few expected the Australian central bank to follow its bigger overseas peers into a more ...