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CBA wealth boss to exit

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... Vacy-Lyle. Vacy-Lyle is currently chief executive of FNB Commercial Banking, a division of the FirstRand Banking Group in South Africa. One year on from NewCo CBA hired Yetton from SocietyOne in October last year to lead its wealth and mortgaging businesses ...

Former Prime Minister joins global investment firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
Julia Gillard has been appointed to the global leadership council of LeapFrog Investments to provide strategic insight and global networks. Together with Singtel chair Simon Israel and chief executive of Ayala Corporation Jamie Augusto Zobel, Gillard ...

BlackRock merges ETF, unlisted fund sales teams in EMEA

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... teams responsible for sales of its iShares and unlisted managed funds products for its business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The unified salesforce will be responsible for distribution of BlackRock's products to asset management and wealth clients ...

Macquarie, Tasplan and QIC shuffle airports

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... industry's most prestigious annual events, the Farnborough International Airshow. MIRA head of Europe, Middle East and Africa Leigh Harrison said the firm was pleased to add the assets to its books. "We are delighted to announce our investment in Farnborough ...

AXA Investment Managers expands impact investing options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... launching a private market strategy aimed at emerging consumers in Latin America, South and South East Asian and Sub-Saharan Africa. AXA IM's Head of impact investing Jonathan Dean said in a statement: "Our mission is to identify those companies who ...

BNY Mellon adds to Melbourne team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... local companies such as CSL and Transurban. Mistry worked at Citi in corporate trust sales in the Middle East and North Africa region, before returning to Australia. He was most recently at Melbourne-based C2 Capital as its head of institutional inve ...

Northern Trust hires from State Street

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... across APAC while at State Street. He will now work with Northern Trust's clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Northern Trust is the sixth-largest custodian in Australia, with an 11.5% share of Australia's total custody assets ...

Link Group offloads share registry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... will sell its 74.85% stake in a share registry for $21.5 million. The holding in share registry Link Market Services South Africa (LMS South Africa) will be sold to JSE Limited. Link managing director John McMurtrie said: "JSE approached Link Group with ...

HSBC chief abruptly resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... across the group included group treasurer; deputy head of global markets and head of global markets, Europe, Middle East and Africa. At one point, he was chief executive of HSBC global asset management; chief of staff to the group chief executive, and ...

Willis Towers Watson buys Aussie broker

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... acquired Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The acquisition is effective immediately, enhancing WTW's offering to clients in the growing M&A market. RCA will become a ...