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ASIC to wind up PE Capital

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... Day is the chief executive of PE Capital. He worked in corporate finance at PwC and was a partner in mergers and acquisitions at Deloitte earlier in his career.

Guardians appoint NZ equities lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
... partnerships. Before this, he was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs JBWere, where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions and capital market activity across New Zealand and Australia. He currently serves on the board of Australian retirement ...

Insider trading four times more common

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
... in both M&A and earnings announcements is approximately 15%," the authors said. The study focussed on mergers and acquisitions because these are frequent, price sensitive announcements made by many companies. Insider trading that happens around a merger ...

Changes on Lazard Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
... fund after the personnel changes. The fund is offered by Lazard Asset Management, which is separate to mergers and acquisitions advisory firm Lazard Australian Financial Advisory. The latter recently announced its plans to reverse from the Australian ...

Challenger names chief financial officer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... year. Rachel Grimes spent over 20 years at Westpac in several senior finance roles including director of mergers and acquisitions and chief financial officer - group technology. Previously, Grimes was head of product and sales at BT Life Insurance and ...

Industry funds pool $61bn of assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... David Elia said the fund's PST structure provides a clear and distinctively viable alternative to mergers and acquisitions, especially for smaller funds that are otherwise well-performing and delivering good and valued member outcomes. "Hostplus' ...

Lazard restructures Australian business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... Wylie was acquired by Lazard in 2007. Since then, the corporate advisory firm's work has focussed on mergers and acquisitions. Lazard is yet to clarify whether the restructure will mean many job losses at the firm.

Super fund ESG targets lack clarity: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... reports of a company fails to meet expectation; opposing corporate divestments of fossil fuel assets, and mergers and acquisitions, unless the ultimate owner is prepared to transition; and/or co-filing and/or supporting shareholder resolutions. The report ...

Longstanding Netwealth chair resigns

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... committees. He was previously a managing director and senior advisor at UBS with a focus on large scale mergers and acquisitions and capital raisings and is currently a non-executive director of Premier Investments, Village Roadshow, Breville Group and ...

EISS Super director joins Macquarie board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... markets instruments, Macquarie said. He spent 23 years at Deutsche Bank, including 10 years as head of mergers and acquisitions. Rebecca McGrath spent 25 years at BP, including as the chief financial officer of BP Australasia from 2008 to 2011. She is ...