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Mercer funds added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... strength of our institutional insights and experience to retail investors." "We're excited more platforms are embracing innovation and that more financial advisers and their clients will now have access to the suite of innovative Mercer diversified funds ...

Asset manager launches quant platform after acquisition

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... GAM Systematic will complement GAM's active discretionary investment offering and will also serve as the group's innovation hub for the development of new technologies, investment ideas and approaches for systematic strategies and products. GAM will ...

ASIC and Singapore regulator sign co-op agreement

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... encouraging innovation that has the potential to benefit financial consumers and investors. "Since ASIC launched its Innovation Hub last year, we have seen a surge in requests by fintech start-ups seeking assistance about how to navigate the regulatory ...

ASIC and UK regulator sign fintech deal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... businesses to benefit from the new agreement, they will need to conform to the criteria of their home market's Innovation Hub. They will then need to be referred by their home regulator, which will put them in touch with a "dedicated team or contact ...

Australia aims to be APAC fintech leader

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's recent trip to Hong Kong and Shanghai top-dressed the government's innovation commitment and complemented calls by financial services executives for Australia's fintech industry to immediately capitalise in a "booming" ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... disruption from technological innovation. Initiatives such as Westpac Garage, IAG Labs and Macquarie's support of innovation hub Stone & Chalk, according to Macdonald, show the big institutions are interested in what is emerging not just in the context ...

CBA innovation hubs go global

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
Commonwealth Bank (CBA) is building on its Sydney innovation lab by launching a second lab in Hong Kong and unveiling plans to expand to London later this year. CBA group executive institutional banking and markets, Kelly Bayer Rosmarin, said Hong Kong's ...

Economist says innovation one small part of growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
The federal government's innovation statement was well received among the financial services industry but there are still gaps to be filled in transforming Australia's fiscal growth according to a chief economist. Providing his global economic and market ...

First State Super hitches cart to Turnbull innovation

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
First State Super will be the first superannuation fund to benefit from Malcolm Turnbull's innovation statement after announcing a venture capital investment partnership with H2 Ventures today. The super fund expects to deploy about $250 million for ...

Industry welcomes Innovation Statement

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
The reforms detailed in the Government's recent Innovation Statement have been enthusiastically welcomed by the financial services industry and beyond. Among a package of reforms introduced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra yesterday were ...