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PwC senior leaders step down over tax scandal

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
... executive role in 2020, Seymour headed up PwC's tax department as its managing partner, financial advisory and Asia Pacific Americas tax leader and, prior to that, managing partner, tax and legal. In January, an investigation by the Tax Practitioners ...

Family offices maintain a steady course: Goldman Sachs

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2023
... family offices. Informing their investment decisions, Goldman Sachs said respondents - 22% of which were located in Asia Pacific - cited recession, geopolitics, and inflation as their top three concerns going into the next one to two years. A significantly ...

PwC chief exits over scandal

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2023
... executive role in 2020, Seymour headed up PwC's tax department as its managing partner, financial advisory and Asia Pacific Americas tax leader and, prior to that, managing partner, tax and legal. PwC chair Tracey Kennair acknowledged the immediate ...

ClearView appoints chief executive

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2023
... "Nadine is a well-respected, proven business leader with over 25 years life insurance experience working across the Asia Pacific region," it explained. "Through this experience, Nadine has brought fresh ideas and disciplines to ClearView since joining ...

US platform bids for Yieldbroker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023
... to the fifth largest pension fund market globally, and we believe that this acquisition would help grow Tradeweb's Asia Pacific footprint and provide meaningful opportunities for domestic and global clients." Yieldbroker's board has unanimously recommended ...

APAC investors cut PE allocations by 50%

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
... produce a perfect storm for investors," it said. "As companies struggled, general partners (GPs) retrenched, and Asia Pacific deal value plummeted 44% to US$198 billion. Exits and fund-raising also fell sharply below 2021 levels." In hindsight, the report ...

Cadillac Fairview, Gateway launch $1bn fund down under

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 APR 2023
... confident this will mark the first of many direct investments in the industrial and logistics asset class across Asia Pacific as we continue to expand our footprint in the region."

Budget all about responsible economic management: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 14 APR 2023
... couldn't be a better time to take the temperature of the global economy." Earlier in the week, IMF deputy director Asia Pacific Anne-Marie Gulde-Wolf said Australia should look to grow its consumption tax in order to restore the deficit. Chalmers dismissed ...

REITs merit place in multi-asset portfolios: Insight

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... investing as they offer easier liquidity and a chance to own part of a large range of properties," said DWS head of Asia Pacific Vanessa Wang. "We have noted APAC investors' usage of REITs to supplement direct property investing as a way to capture market ...

ETF market to hit $200bn by 2025

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023
... new asset classes to the market, including cryptocurrency, it noted. "Australia was also the first nation in the Asia Pacific to list cryptocurrency ETFs, which highlights how local investors and providers are striving to innovate and leading the way ...