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Contango appoints compliance officer

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Contango Asset Management has appointed a new compliance and legal officer. Skye Radley joins the manager from Equity Trustees, where she worked in legal, risk management and compliance roles for three years. Prior to that, she was a solicitor with ...

Wingate appoints new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Wingate Asset Management has appointed a new chief executive. Jamie Mead joins Wingate from Tyrus Capital in London, where he was a founding partner. Prior to that, he worked at US$4 billion hedge fund Deephaven Capital Management, and has also held ...

CBA offers $9.4m in compensation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
CBA has provided an update on its Open Advice Review, saying it has offered $9.4 million in compensation to customers. The bank contacted 350,000 at the review's outset, 8,600 of whom requested a review. So far, 5,300 of those requested assessments ...

BNP partner wins $240m global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
A BNP Paribas strategic partner has secured a $240 million global equities super mandate. Carnegie Asset Management, which currently manages over $17 billion worldwide, will provide a high conviction, active global growth equity strategy to VicSuper. ...

AB to acquire hedge fund manager

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
AllianceBernstein has entered into an agreement to acquire an alternatives investment manager. Ramius Alternative Solutions, which is jointly owned by Ramius LLC and principals Stuart Davies and Vikas Kapoor, manages over US$3 billion and operates multi- ...

Macquarie sells down stake in Atlas Roads

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2016
Macquarie has completed its selldown of equity in Macquarie Atlas Roads. The group sold 53 million shares in MQA at $5.32 per share to "a range of institutional investors via a bookbuild." As a result of this, Macquarie's stake in the company will now ...

CommSec hit with $700,000 fines

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
CommSec has paid $700,000 in infringement notice penalties and voluntarily refunded $1.1 million in brokerage. The infringement notices were given by ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel, which the regulator said "had reasonable grounds to believe CommSec ...

Energy Super rolls out digital advice service

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Energy Super has gone live with its new digital advice service. The service uses Decimal's Eqilize robo-advice software, and according to Energy Super general manager of digital transformation and analytics David Beal, is aimed at delivering an "entrA(C)e" ...

Internal restructuring hits EQT profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Internal restructuring and exiting from non-core activities has dragged Equity Trustees' profits in FY16, even if the company managed to boost its funds under management by 16% to $65 billion. Net profit after tax fell 21.6% to $13.3 million and revenue ...

Preqin research highlights surge in private capital sector

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Assets under management in the global private capital industry reached $5.7 trillion in 2015, up from $5.3 trillion in 2014 and $3.8 trillion in 2010. According to Preqin research, private equity firms hold the majority ($3.8 trillion) of this amount ...