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Elston grows distribution team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
Elston Asset Management has made two additions to its distribution team, hiring from Morningstar and Lonsec. Samantha Woodham has joined as a senior business development manager for Queensland and Western Australia. She was previously at Morningstar ...

Blake Grossman joins BetaShares board

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
ETF manager BetaShares has added a new non-executive director to its board with previous experience at competitor BlackRock. Blake Grossman has been appointed non-executive director at BetaShares. He was previously global chief executive of Barclays ...

Mercer names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2021
Mercer Pacific has appointed former Australian Unity manager Emily O'Brien as chief financial officer, taking over from David McKeown. O'Brien was general manager of commercial and structured finance at Australian Unity for over two years. She was previously ...

Aussies to lose $100m to fraudsters

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2021
Investment scams robbed Australians $65 million last year and are tipped to lose up to $100 million in 2021. This is according to Finbold, which found that investment fraud was the number one scam that prey Australians. Dating and romance scams (23%) ...

Vanguard targeted in bond fund scam

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
Vanguard is the latest fund manager to have its branding used by scammers spruiking fraudulent bond funds. The asset manager said scammers are buying advertisements on search engines for terms relating to "bond or high yield investments". When a person ...

Mason Stevens bolsters Melbourne team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
Mason Stevens is continuing to build out its Melbourne office with the appointment of a sales director from Challenger. David Johnson, who will be based in Melbourne, spent over four years at Challenger as state manager for Victoria and as a senior ...

REA Group to acquire Mortgage Choice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
REA Group has entered into an agreement with Mortgage Choice to acquire 100% of outstanding shares for $1.95 cash per share in a deal worth $244 million. Mortgage Choice has a loan book of $54 billion, settlements of $11 billion in 2020 and in the six ...

Cboe acquires Chi-X

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... pioneering spirit that strongly aligns with Cboe's legacy of product and market innovation," Chi-X Australia chief executive Vic Jokovic said. "We are excited to draw upon Cboe's core strengths as a leading global exchange operator to further enhance ...

ADB invests in sustainable start-ups

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has made its first investments in start-ups that help address development challenges in emerging countries, mainly focusing on climate and gender impact. The ADB Ventures Equity Fund, the bank's first investment fund ...

New fund launches on Chi-X

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... Capital has a total FUM of $544 million, which was up 22.6% over the six months to 31 December 2020. Chi-X chief executive Vic Jokovic said active exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have experienced unprecedented demand over the past 12 months as Australian ...