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ASX issues first corporate bond, underwritten by Westpac

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... rate, unsecured medium-term notes. This issuance falls under its newly established Medium Term Notes Programme, dated 18 August 2023. The Notes have a coupon of three-month BBSW plus 93 basis points, were priced at par and mature on 26 February 2027. ...

ANZ gets green light for Suncorp merger

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2024
... Competition Tribunal (ACT), despite initially being blocked by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in August last year. At the time, the ACCC said it was not satisfied with the proposal because it would reduce competition in the ...

AMP chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2024
... on 15 June 2019 at the height of AMP's tumult in the wake of the Hayne Royal Commission. She took over as chair in August 2020. She replaced Catherine Brenner who left in the hope that investors could regain confidence in AMP following shock revelations ...

Jailed adviser permanently banned by ASIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2024
... was found guilty of misappropriating $1,056,685.18 from some of his clients' self-managed super funds. Between July and August 2019, he was found to have used all the money to feed his gambling habit. At the time, he was sole director and shareholder ...

Barings builds out local team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
... manager is building up institutional, wealth and retail businesses in Australia, Greater China and Southeast Asia. Last August, the firm hired Aaron Thirukumar as director of Australian institutional sales. Both Thirukumar and Michael Gaffney, head of ...

Centric hires chief client officer

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2024
... address Australia's "fractured fintech ecosystem". It is owned by Findex. Morris joins from Sequoia, which he joined in August 2023 as chief operating officer. Prior, he spent seven years at Praemium as chief distribution officer before departing ...

BlackRock appoints Aussie head, builds out NZ business

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... head of New Zealand. Its $2 billion New Zealand climate investment fund, announced by the previous Labour government in August 2023, is expected to make its first investments in early 2024. "Irrespective of government, we see this not only as a wonderful ...

PGIM names institutional client group lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2024
PGIM has finally filled the institutional client-facing position left vacant by Murray Brewer last August. The US$1.2 trillion asset management business of Prudential Financial has chosen Chris Briant to be the new head of its institutional client group ...

UniSuper appoints chief risk officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2024
... Martin will join UniSuper in the role on February 21. He is currently chief risk officer at Cbus, a role he's held since August 2019. Martin will replace Andrew Raftis, who retired at the end of 2023 after three years in the role. Martin has been with ...

WAM Leaders to make bid for QV Equities

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2024
... for every 1.4675 shares of QVE. Entities associated with WAM Leaders already own a 15.8% stake in QVE. "Since listing in August 2014, QVE's investment portfolio has underperformed," WAM Leaders said. "If this offer is successful, it will provide QVE ...