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FTSE Russell hires client coverage lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024
FTSE Russell has appointed Julia Lee as the head of client coverage to work alongside asset owners, asset managers, and institutional clients. Lee takes on the role of FTSE Russell head of client coverage, index investments group, Pacific. She joins ...

ASIC intends to extend legislative instruments

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
ASIC is set to extend three legislative instruments for five years, one of which relates to record keeping for financial advisers. The instruments are: Class Order [CO 14/923] Record-keeping obligations for Australian financial services licensees when ...

FAAA calls on advisers: 'We ask for your support'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2024
Financial Advice Association Australia (FAAA) general manager policy, advocacy and standards Phil Anderson has outlined the industry's biggest gripes with the collapse of Dixon Advisory and how it has been handled. Anderson said he is angry about the ...

BlackRock names Asia Pacific operations chief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
BlackRock named Tomoko Ueda as chief operating officer for its Asia Pacific business, succeeding James Raby who will become global head of compliance. Ueda has been with BlackRock since 2022 when she joined as head of corporate strategy and development ...

Australia sees jump in zombie companies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2024
A new study from global consulting firm Kearney revealed the number of zombie companies in Australia increased 13.6% in the past year. Zombie companies - those which don't produce enough profits to cover debt obligations - now account for 5.8% of ...

Macquarie AM splurges on data centre

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) will splurge US$530 million on a Korean data centre company. MAM via its Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund (MKIF) agreed to acquire the Hanam Data Centre, a data centre with a total capacity of 40 megawatts and a target ...

AFSLs can lose licence on CSLR intervention

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
AFS Licensees (AFSLs) and their professional indemnity insurers (PII) that fail to pay a determination will potentially see their licence revoked if the Compensation Scheme of Last Resort (CSLR) has to intervene. CSLR chief executive David Berry warned ...

Chalmers 'confident but not complacent' on economic prospects

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2024
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has spoken out on the likelihood of Australia falling victim to the impacts of a potential US recession. This comes after global markets sustained a major sell-off, with the ASX losing $102 billion on Monday, after US data revealed ...

Cbus taps ex-AustralianSuper equities chief for 'critical role'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2024
Cbus has appointed a former AustralianSuper equities chief to serve as its head of portfolio construction. Justin Pascoe, who joined AustralianSuper as a senior portfolio manager in June 2019 before being promoted in August 2021, will take on the "critical ...

Mercer Super cops landmark $11.3m greenwashing penalty

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024
Mercer Superannuation Australia has been slapped with a whopping $11.3 million penalty by the Federal Court on the back of an ASIC-led greenwashing investigation. Mercer was found to make misleading statements on its website about seven Sustainable ...