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ClearView risk chief joins IOOF

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUN 2021
... boasts a long career in risk and compliance roles, including as head of CIO governance at ANZ and head of compliance for BlackRock Australia. Replacing Cowan at ClearView, meanwhile, is interim chief risk officer James Myerscough. Myerscough joined ClearView ...

Goodments by Douugh now in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... companies. The platform offers access to 4000 US-listed stocks as well as a range of ETFs from the likes of Vanguard, BlackRock and ARK Invest. The company's target market for the Australian launch is young people - Millennials and Gen Z - who it ...

Macquarie sweeps Investment Leadership Awards

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
... highly coveted Investment Manager of the Year award, making this the third consecutive year. Macquarie IM beat finalists BlackRock Investment Management, Pendal Group, State Street Global Advisors and Vanguard. It also won the following categories: Australian ...

BlackRock rejigs Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
BlackRock is changing the name and fees for the BlackRock Concentrated Industrial Shares strategy. Effective June 1, the fund was renamed to BlackRock High Conviction Australian Equity Fund. The strategy has about $700 million in total assets, of which ...

Primewest accepts merger offer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... existing employees will be retained. The merger comes after Primewest formed a joint venture with a fund advised by BlackRock Real Assets and exchanged contracts to acquire an office tower in Perth with the settlement expected for June. The office at ...

BlackRock unifies offering, rejigs executives

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
BlackRock Australia is combining its client business and iShares teams to deliver whole of portfolio solutions to clients, reshuffling its executives in the process. According to the investment giant, the bringing together of the teams will bring a ...

BlackRock wins monumental mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
In what is reportedly one of the biggest transfers of retirement savings to date, BlackRock has won the first external investment mandate for two of the largest defined benefit schemes in the UK. BlackRock will be the outsourced chief investment officer ...

GAM hires from BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... The Swiss manager is investing in its local business, adding to its product offering and hiring a senior manager from BlackRock. Close to three years since opening its Australian office, GAM Investments is growing the Sydney-based team with the addition ...

UBS AM wholesale client coverage lead departs

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... a broad range of investors. He is the former national manager of retail at Lazard Asset Management, and director at BlackRock and Merrill Lynch Investment Management. Marcus Cleary has been appointed to lead the wholesale team. Cleary joined UBS in 2014 ...

Last day to vote in MAX Awards

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
... Education Campaign of the Year, PR Company of the Year and Marketing Team of the Year. Big winners last year included BlackRock, Vanguard and Zurich, while individuals honoured included BlackRock's national iShares specialist James Waterworth who ...