ClearView has launched a new dealer services offer, called LaVista Licensee Solutions, which gives financial advisers that want to be self-licensed access to their back office systems.
The Actuaries Institute has launched a new index that measures extreme weather conditions and changes to sea levels, called the Australian Actuaries Climate Index (AACI).
InvestSMART has announced the launch of the InvestSMART Professionally Managed Accounts (PMAs), which will allow investors to create a portfolio from a range of model portfolios, while retaining legal ownership of the shares.
IRESS has announced a new automated digital personal advice solution for super fund members.
Fintech GBST has launched an equities and fixed income middle office Software as a Service (SAAS), called Syn~TAC SaaS.
Three former APRA employees (Fahmi Hosain, Tamara Scicluna and Will Peterson), have launched a new governance, risk management and culture consultancy.
Key players in the investment management industry - including Mercer, AustralianSuper, Cbus Super, Future Fund, HESTA, Magellan, Mercer, NAB Asset Management, Pendal, QIC and Wavestone - have joined together to try and attract more diverse talent into the investment teams of Australia's leading super funds and fund managers, via a website called Future IM/Pact.
Perpetual has launched a diversified fund of ethical, socially responsible fixed income assets called the Perpetual Ethical SRI Credit Fund.
MLC Life Insurance has launched its new digital underwriting platform, which aims to reduce the time it takes for advisers and customers to purchase life cover.