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Asset manager welcomes new hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... Ironbark Asset Management as head of client solutions. Kenny was most recently chief executive of Australian Unity joint venture, Federation Alliance, a superannuation and managed accounts platform provider. Kenny brings more than 20 years' experience ...

CBA sells interests in Chinese insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
Commonwealth Bank has offloaded its stake in a Chinese life insurance joint venture for $668 million. CBA sold its 37.5% equity interest in BoComm Life Insurance to Japanese insurer Mitsui Sumitomo as per a condition of the bank's sale of its Australian ...

Spaceship looks outside of superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... graduate and has worked at Goldman Sachs in family office investing. After this, he moved to a fund investment role at a venture capital firm and said he started Spaceship to "help his friends." Spaceship has gone from employing eight people last year ...

PIMCO and Allianz begin hiring spree for new business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... than two years of product research and development and represents Allianz and PIMCO's first-ever co-branded business venture. PIMCO is also searching for a chief executive to lead the new business; in the interim, PIMCO head of Australia and New ...

Tech is all upside for insurance: HSBC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
Latest HSBC research highlights insurance is an industry ready for disruption, and envisages significant benefits related to technology-enabled solutions to financial inclusion and affordability issues. In the report HSBC outlines the various ways in ...

Acorns rebrands, issues prospectus

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... monthly customers and $170 million in funds under management. In January, Acorns Australia changed from its original join-venture ownership structure. Acorns was founded in 2012 by father and son team Walter and Jeffrey Cruttenden. The restructure granted ...

Fund manager names new chair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... investment and development. She recently became a director of IPFM, the ISPT/IFM Investors international property joint venture. She was also recently an independent director of Aconex. ISPT chief executive Daryl Browning said: "On behalf of the board ...

What makes a tech company attractive for HNW investors?

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... held, solve important problems and distinguish themselves from competitors across large swathes of the market, according venture capital industry leaders on the panel. Venture capital and private equity will be the investment vehicle of choice because ...

IFM partners to launch global property manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
An Australian-based global fund manager with more than $105 billion under management has established a joint venture company with an unlisted property fund manager. IFM Investors and Industry Super Property Trust (ISPT) have established International ...

QIC wins $550m super fund mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... capital platform will provide Rest members with access to a range of international unlisted assets across private equity and venture capital. "In QIC, we sought out a like-minded approach to investment in growth assets and to further develop our existing ...