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QSuper names investments chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
QSuper will welcome its new chief investment officer in September as it farewells Brad Holzberger. Charles Woodhouse has been promoted to investments chief after serving as the QSuper's head of funds management since 2009. During that period, he ...

J.P. Morgan loses custody contract

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
A $34 billion public sector fund has appointed a new custodian, ending a 19 year-long relationship with J.P. Morgan. Funds SA has selected Northern Trust as its custodian, after a long tender process. In September last year, Funds SA said it had invited ...

Managed Account Awards finalists revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
The Institute of Managed Account Professionals (IMAP) has announced the finalists of the 2019 Managed Account Awards. The awards cover single sector asset classes and multi-asset class programs with a range of risk profiles or other goal based objectives. ...

Northern Trust wins two mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
Northern Trust has won two mandates from an Australian-based $14.7 billion investment manager. Maple-Brown Abbott appointed Northern Trust to provide global custody, middle-office trade matching, fund administration, foreign exchange and associated ...

New directors join Frontier Advisors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
Asset consultancy group Frontier Advisors has appointed two new board directors. Cbus board director John Edwards and HESTA board director Deborah Cole have joined the Frontier board. Edwards and Cole will replace long-standing directors Cbus chief ...

Gender pay gap should be government priority

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... commitment from all parties by way of increasing funding for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, and supporting female angel investor networks. The ASX Corporate Governance Council recently revised its principles and urged ASX300 companies to have ...

Angel investor makes first Australian bet

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
An angel investing group that invests in private companies led by LGBT founders has made its first Australian investment, ahead of the Sydney Mardi Gras this weekend. Gaingels invested $150,000 in sugar-free beverage company Nexba, which is based in ...

Chief economist update: US economic growth is slowing and accelerating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
... your case else, use the year-on-year rate to show continued advancing progress. As is always the case, the devil (or the angel) is in the details. The BEA's contributions to growth table shows that despite slowing in both the annualised and year-on-year ...

Aristotle enters Australian market

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
Global investment manager Aristotle is entering the Australian market via a distribution agreement with Plus Capital Management. Third-party marketing business Plus Capital will focus on introducing Aristotle's global equity strategy to Australian ...

Challenger bolsters exec lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
Challenger has filled the role left open when Richard Howes moved to replace Brian Benari as the chief executive of the $5.6 billion company. Angela Murphy was announced as the chief executive of distribution, product and marketing this morning. She ...