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Family office executives take investment reins: Ocorian

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023
Improved professionalisation has seen a "significant transformation" in the family office sector, with executives increasingly empowered to manage family assets in-house, according to a new study by Ocorian. As part of the study, conducted earlier in ...

Fidelity Investments to hire 1000 advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Fidelity Investments is in the process of hiring about 1000 licensed financial planners in the US in a bid to meet the skyrocketing demand for advice. The firm is expanding to over 20 locations across the US, including Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego ...

Ignition Advice enters UK market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2021
Fintech Ignition Advice has announced it will move into the UK market, establishing new teams in London and Edinburgh. Ignition chief executive of Europe Terry Donohoe said he is delighted by the move into the UK market. "By bringing advisers and their ...

Milestone Group appoints APAC lead

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
The head of Asia Pacific for RBC Investor and Treasury Services has been appointed to lead Milestone Group's regional business... and Australia's recently consolidated super funds are in her sights. Industry veteran Marian Azer has nabbed a ...

Global tech wars disrupt $600m market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
The race is on for the most dominant financial services provider to the $600 million millennial market segment in Australia, with local players facing stiff competition from US and Chinese fintechs. At a banking technology conference session held in ...

The rise of challenger banks in Australia: SIBOS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... issues, said Le. But volt bank's Weston warns that challenging the incumbent banks is not easy. "You can't be a technologist and front up to APRA and say I'm going to change the world of banking. You'll last five minutes," he said. "In ...

PIMCO partners with data and analytics platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
PIMCO has partnered with a financial technology company to enhance its quantitative research and analytic capabilities into its investment process. Part of the partnership sees PIMCO acquiring a minority stake in cloud-based integrated data and financial ...

Asset managers need more tech leaders in C-suite

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
The asset management industry must do more to have technologists in executive positions and leverage their skills to use technology strategically, rather than see it as a cost centre or an operational function. Research from financial technology company ...

Pillar enters blockchain

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
Superannuation services giant Pillar Administration has leapt in to blockchain with a view to address many of the technology inefficiencies in the $2 trillion super industry. At an internal super summit in Wollongong yesterday, Pillar chief executive ...

Australia and UK to shape retirement landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
A global pension expert believes both Australia and the UK will play a major role in driving future ingenuity and innovation for retirement markets across the world. On the eve of attending the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Adelaide ...
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