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Macquarie, Tasplan and QIC shuffle airports

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... industry's most prestigious annual events, the Farnborough International Airshow. MIRA head of Europe, Middle East and Africa Leigh Harrison said the firm was pleased to add the assets to its books. "We are delighted to announce our investment in Farnborough ...

AXA Investment Managers expands impact investing options

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... launching a private market strategy aimed at emerging consumers in Latin America, South and South East Asian and Sub-Saharan Africa. AXA IM's Head of impact investing Jonathan Dean said in a statement: "Our mission is to identify those companies who ...

BNY Mellon adds to Melbourne team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... local companies such as CSL and Transurban. Mistry worked at Citi in corporate trust sales in the Middle East and North Africa region, before returning to Australia. He was most recently at Melbourne-based C2 Capital as its head of institutional inve ...

Northern Trust hires from State Street

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... across APAC while at State Street. He will now work with Northern Trust's clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Northern Trust is the sixth-largest custodian in Australia, with an 11.5% share of Australia's total custody assets ...

Link Group offloads share registry

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... will sell its 74.85% stake in a share registry for $21.5 million. The holding in share registry Link Market Services South Africa (LMS South Africa) will be sold to JSE Limited. Link managing director John McMurtrie said: "JSE approached Link Group with ...

HSBC chief abruptly resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... across the group included group treasurer; deputy head of global markets and head of global markets, Europe, Middle East and Africa. At one point, he was chief executive of HSBC global asset management; chief of staff to the group chief executive, and ...

Willis Towers Watson buys Aussie broker

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... acquired Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The acquisition is effective immediately, enhancing WTW's offering to clients in the growing M&A market. RCA will become a ...

World leaders back impact investing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... challenges and highlighted the ways this could assist "fragile" areas - making special mention of the Sahel region in Northern Africa.

KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... the local branch of global life reinsurer RGA as managing director, with responsibility for Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan. Between 2004 and 2007, she was chief financial officer and appointed actuary at life insurer Asteron, and was ...

Investec scores ADI licence

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
... resources, private equity, power and infrastructure, property, mid-market and emerging companies. Headquartered in South Africa, Investec has more than 10,000 employees globally. It recently closed its robo-advice offering Click & Invest two years after ...