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Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... the dying days of 2020. All looked swell... until the coronavirus variant that was first spotted in the UK and in South Africa. It's reportedly less deadly but more infectious and has already triggered renewed lockdowns in Europe and Asia and the ...

WTW appoints Australia segment head

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... it bought Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. WTW is the third-largest asset consultant by assets in not-for-profit superannuation funds as at 30 June 2020, according ...

Senior appointments at HLB Mann Judd

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... advice and experience in the field." Wirtz has 20 years' experience in professional services throughout Australia, South Africa, Brazil, China and Japan. His remit will be the provision of tax consulting services to Australian-based companies, ranging ...

Investec to close Aussie business

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... performance of the Australian business or employees, but a "strategic exit" to focus on its core markets of UK and South Africa. It will exit Australia over the coming 18 months, and 98 staff in total will be impacted. Investec has reached an agreement ...

Zurich adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... will join as head of strategy. She has been with TAL for over four years, and has previously held roles with FNB South Africa and PwC. Zurich said Marshall will lead several critical enterprise wide projects and will drive long-term strategy. "We are ...

Australia among strongest on governance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... strong rules. Australia's peers in this group were Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, the US and UK. The 10 governance factors Calvert looked at included accounting risk, audit oversight, board effectiveness ...

Stanford Brown adds partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... over eight years. Boustred commenced her career in the audit and corporate finance divisions of Ernst & Young in South Africa before moving to Australia. She joined technology company Dimension Data in a mergers and acquisitions role and eventually moved ...

AMP Capital buys digital infrastructure firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... company's pan-European fibre operator strategy," he said. VX Fiber's network runs from Umea, Sweden, and operates in South Africa and the UK. It has a partnership with local council Grosvenor Estate, near London, to operate a fibre broadband network ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... their portfolios. Superhero operates under the AFSL of Sanlam Private Wealth, an investment and advisory firm from South Africa. Sanlam services high net-worth clients, family offices, institutional clients and not-for-profits, offering portfolio services ...

Mixed results at Bjelke-Peterson estate sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
A Lloyds auction of the estate of controversial former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson produced mixed results. One of the big ticket items was a piece of paraphernalia from 1969, when the astronauts who landed on the moon toured the world attending ...