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Coolabah buys retail fund manager stake

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
... been a 50% founding shareholder of the SMI business along with its other co-founders who, with YBR, have built from a startup in 2011 a significant $1 billion plus, market-leading funds management business in their area of expertise in fixed interest," ...

Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... markets offered up fewer IPO and other opportunities. Australia's $150 billion Future Fund backed a California-based tech startup last month. APAC sovereign investors buck the trend Interestingly, Asia Pacific sovereign investors showed a different sentiment ...

Future Fund backs tech startup

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
Australia's $154 billion sovereign wealth fund has invested in a technology company looking to deploy its products in the industrial sector. California's Everactive raised $30 million in a recent funding round, of which Future Fund was the lead ...

Super funds partner for $250m fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
First State Super and VicSuper are partnering with the Victorian Government to set up a $250 million fund which will invest in small and medium businesses in the state. Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas announced $50 million towards the $250 million Victorian ...

Super startup taps new investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
A superannuation fund launched by a former Olympian and investment banker has raised $2 million from investors. Superestate has attracted new investors including Aura Group, whose venture capital fund invested $750,000 in Superestate as a part of the ...

NAB looks to boost fintech

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
The National Australia Bank announced its existing alliance with Bank Leumi of Israel and CIBC will move into fintech with the introduction of the Global Alliance Fintech Link. The Link is an online portal developed to help drive client-focused innovation ...

Spaceship searches for new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
Startup superannuation fund Spaceship is shaking up its management structure and is on the hunt for a new chief. Chief executive and co-founder Paul Bennetts will become chief product officer, a new role that was created as part of the super fund's ...

ASIC pushes regtech adoption

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
ASIC has launched three regtech events in conjunction with industry and other stakeholders to promote regtech adoption among Australian financial services organisations. These events are an opportunity for regtech startups and financial services organisations' ...

Insurtech Australia names new chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
Insurtech Australia has tapped a senior executive from one of its founding partners as its new chief executive. Rita Yates replaces Simon O'Dell, who will become chair, as the organisation gears for growth in 2019. Yates joined Insurtech Australia ...

Insurtechs improve life insurance inefficiencies: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
Life insurers are ramping up efforts to improve pricing and underwriting efficiencies with the help of startups to make it possible, a new insurtech study shows. The second annual EY and Insurtech Australia report found almost three-in-four (72%) insurtechs ...