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Chapmans passes on blockchain investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... company, through additional investments and performance-related rights. Securrency was exploring a listing on the TSX Venture Exchange through an RTO within 120 days, at a significantly higher valuation. "The company wishes to confirm that it will not ...

LaSalle acquires Aviva real estate business

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
LaSalle Investment Management will become one of the world's largest non-listed indirect real estate investment managers following its acquisition of Aviva Investors' real estate multi-manager business. Aviva is also forming a new real assets ...

ASX invests in e-property settlements business

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... regulator, the Australian Registrars' National Electronic Conveyancing Council (ARNECC) for its ELNO. ASX's partner in the venture, ATI, owns the InfoTrack which is a top player in legal and property search and manual property settlements. The 18-year-old ...

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 ...