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ICG appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
Infrastructure Capital Group has appointed a director and two new associates. Edward Lloyd joins ICG as a director from KPMG, where he was a principal. Prior to KPMG, he was a director in Colonial First State Global Asset Management's infrastructure ...

Cbus appoints new investment manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Cbus has appointed a new investment manager, innovation and strategy. Alexandra West has been working as an independent advisor to superannuation funds, asset managers and asset consultants for nearly 10 years; prior to that, she was director strategy ...

Nikko AM launches Japan fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Nikko Asset Management has launched a fund focused on the Japanese equities market. The Nikko AM Japan Share Concentrated Fund is based on concentrated portfolio of Japanese equities, the strategy for which is managed by 18-year industry veteran Yuki ...

ASIC investigating ASX outage

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed that ASIC is investigating September 19's significant disruption to ASX trading. The ASX has blamed the outage, which was the longest in five years, on a "hardware failure" though no other details were ...

Women behind in financial wellness survey

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Women are "overrepresented" in low financial wellness indices, according to Workplace Super Specialists Australia research. The WSSA Financial Wellness index was developed in partnership with CoreData, and essentially defines the extent to which a given ...

PE firm to buy out Goldman Sachs Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
A global growth private equity firm has signed an agreement to buy out Goldman Sachs Asset Management's Australian business and fund platform. TA Associates will partner with GSAM head of Australia equities Dion Hershan and the Australian GSAM management ...

BNP appoints sales manager from J.P. Morgan

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
BNP Paribas has appointed a new sales manager for New South Wales and Queensland. David Pember joins BNP from J.P. Morgan, where he was executive director, sales manager asset managers and insurance companies. Prior to that, he was a director of strategic ...

Bisan buys stake in RE, launches PE fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
Bisan has acquired a 40% equity interest in a responsible entity for three managed investment schemes and launched a private equity fund. The asset manager purchased the stake in Endeavour Securities for $600,000 from Linchpin Capital; following completion ...

BetaShares launches cybersecurity ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... across the globe has had an unfortunate consequence in the equally strong growth of cybercrime," BetaShares managing director Alex Vynokur said. "Cybersecurity is front of mind for governments, businesses and individuals across the world, with events ...

Robeco Boston Partners finding value in the "three circles"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
The value of a business in the global investable universe can be reduced to "three circles," according to Robeco Boston Partners portfolio manager Joshua Jones. In Sydney to discuss Robeco's Boston Partners Global Premium Equities Fund, Jones described ...