The New Payments Platform launched

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Payments infrastructure that enables customers with accounts at different banks, building societies and credit unions to make real-time data-rich payments to each other any time of day, any day of... Read more continue reading

Leading investment management firms, BetaShares and Legg Mason, form Active ETF strategic partnership

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Leading Australian ETF Manager, BetaShares, and Legg Mason, one of the world’s largest funds management groups, today announced a long-term strategic partnership, to launch a range of Active ETFs. Legg... Read more continue reading

IOOF enters strategic partnership with GROW Super

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IOOF has entered into a strategic partnership with GROW Super, one of Australia’s leading digital superannuation providers. IOOF will take a minority stake in GROW to assist in its continued... Read more continue reading

AIA Australia sponsors Pain Revolution to help fight chronic pain

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AIA Australia yesterday announced its partnership with Pain Revolution, a community based educational program aiming to help people who suffer from chronic – or persistent – pain. The initiative is... Read more continue reading

La Trobe Financial’s retail Credit Fund hits $2 billion FUM milestone

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Following from its recent acquisition by Blackstone in December 2017, La Trobe Financial has recently announced that its multi award-winning retail Credit Fund has tripled its funds under management (FUM)... Read more continue reading

GSFM appoints Stephen Miller as investment consultant

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Grant Samuel Funds Management (GSFM) has appointed industry expert Stephen Miller to the newly created role of investment consultant. Mr Miller will be based in Sydney and report to CEO... Read more continue reading

Macquarie adds wealth accounts to award-winning digital banking app

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Macquarie has announced the addition of wealth accounts to its award-winning digital banking app. This enables clients to see all of their wealth holdings, including their share portfolio, investments, super... Read more continue reading

Global macro economic update for the week beginning 12 February, 2018

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Summary Systematic volatility trading triggered the sharp fall in equity markets as the low-volatility regime was hit. This week, attention will be focused on a range of inflation reports. The... Read more continue reading

SuperMate launches industry first intelligent document management system

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SuperConcepts has released an intelligent document management system (DMS) within its leading SMSF accounting platform, SuperMate. SuperMate users will now be able to scan or email documents which are then... Read more continue reading

The pullback in shares – seven reasons not to be too concerned

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Key points The current pullback in shares has been triggered by  worries around US inflation, the Fed and rising bond yields but made worse by an unwinding of bets that... Read more continue reading