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Northern Trust appoints head of quant

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... Bennett will now head Northern Trust's Australia and New Zealand quantitative research and client solutions in the Melbourne-based role. He will report to Northern Trust Asset Management's head for Australia and New Zealand, Bert Rebelo. Bennett ...

JP Morgan Asset Management grows distribution team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... Basoor links with the US$1.7 trillion firm as an executive director, institutional client advisor. She will be based in Melbourne, reporting directly to the firm's Australian country head Rachel Farrell. JPMAM said Basoor's remit will include responsibility ...

ETFs attracting more money than LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... said. On the other side, some of the biggest IPOs this year have been investment manager IPOs. Earlier in the year, Melbourne-based long-short manager L1 Capital raised $1.3 billion for its LIC. Veteran investor Geoff Wilson raised $466 million to float ...

RBC I&TS wins custody, fund admin mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... and Treasury Services was awarded a custody and fund administration mandate by a $2 billion asset management boutique. Melbourne-based Warakirri Asset Management has appointed RBC I&TS to provide core custody, fund administration, registry and risk and ...

Aussies second-most optimistic about retirement: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... compared to the gross domestic product (131%), trailing Netherlands (180%) and the US (150%). We also score high on the Melbourne Mercer index (B+), the same as Netherlands and ahead of Ireland and Sweden (B), UK and Germany (C+) and Italy and the US ...

Property manager acquires $645m portfolio

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
An ASX-listed property manager is set to acquire a $645 million portfolio of office buildings in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. The Centuria Metropolitan REIT (CMA) has entered into agreements with Hines Global REIT, in a transaction that swells parent ...

KKR offers $2.6b to acquire MYOB

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... in MYOB from Bain Capital at a price of $3.15 per share. Bain Capital's sell down gave KKR a 19.9% stake in the Melbourne-based company. Bain still has about 6% of MYOB's stock on issue. Now KKR has made an unsolicited proposal to MYOB to acquire ...

Australian Unity mulls fund takeover

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2018
... Starwood receiving Foreign Investment Review Board approval. The AOF holds nine office properties in Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane and Canberra.

Chief economist update: Keep one eye open on the housing market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... central forecast is for inflation to be higher in 2019 and 2020 than it is currently." "Conditions in the Sydney and Melbourne housing markets have continued to ease and nationwide measures of rent inflation remain low." Indeed. CoreLogic's "5 capital ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... Jon Howie moved to Hong Kong to head BlackRock's APAC equity index strategy. He has hired two staff since - one in Melbourne (taking the team there to two people) and another one in Sydney. "We are still in a similar split between wealth and institutional ...