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PwC appoints insurance leader

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... leader for Australia within the firm's Financial Services business. Makita joined the Australian firm, transferring from PwC Japan where he led that its insurance consulting business, specialising in insurance operations and transformation. With 23 years ...

Australian market praised in latest pension study

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022
... included in the study are Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Australia, Canada ...

AustralianSuper to grow external mandates, hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
The nation's largest superannuation fund plans to appoint more external managers, including looking to hand out its first mandates for Japanese and Indian markets specialists. It has also hired from Frontier and VFMC as it grows the team responsible ...

US fund manager hires former Legg Mason executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
... rebranded from Wells Fargo Asset Management, hired Andy Sowerby as managing director and head of client group for APAC ex-Japan. Reporting to head of international client group Deirdre Flood, Sowerby leads Allspring's business development across ...

Emerald City becomes hot spot for investors

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 27 JAN 2022
CBRE's latest APAC Investor Intentions survey has revealed that Sydney is now the fourth most preferred destination for APAC cross-border investment. The survey, which covers all asset types, found that most investors (60%) intend to make more acquisitions ...

Global dividend income growth to continue: Plato

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2022
... Report shows dividend income increased in all but one country (Switzerland) when comparing 2021 to 2020. North America & Japan were relatively flat, with substantial increases in European countries including Sweden (+193%), Italy (+115%) and the UK (+45%). ...

Net zero banks fund $3.5bn in carbon: Market Forces

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Market Forces claims NAB, ANZ and Westpac are among several banks with net zero commitments that continue to lend to Global Infrastructure Partners, despite its not-so environmentally friendly investments. Market Forces says in total 18 banks, including ...

PineBridge hires Asia wealth management lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
... up at BNY Mellon Investment Management in April 2021. At BNY, Kopitsis was the head of intermediary distribution Asia ex Japan and Singapore country head for more than five years. Prior to that, he was the chief executive of BNY's Switzerland subsidiary. ...

PIMCO lowers GDP growth rate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022
... works. Fund manager PIMCO has downgraded its developed markets outlook for countries that also include the UK, US, Canada and Japan. Gross domestic product growth among these economies has been downgraded from 5% in 2021 to 4% this year at an annual ...

U Ethical Investors announces new relationship manager

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2021
... institutional markets. With over 15 years' experience in institutional sales, equity investment analysis and ESG investing in Japan and Australia, Asai will take advantage of her financial and ESG expertise to seek new opportunities for the responsible ...