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AMP Capital divests $440m from tobacco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... managers have divested from tobacco holdings for their Australian strategies so far this year including J.P. Morgan AM, Swiss asset manager Vontobel and Legg Mason affiliate Western Asset.

Global equities fund purges tobacco, fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... $300 million of Aussie insto money is purging itself clean of all investments in tobacco and fossil fuels. Vontobel is a Swiss asset manager with $167 billion in assets under management. About 11.4% of the firm's total assets are managed under specific ...

Swiss asset manager eyes Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
A Swiss asset manager is offering two new sustainable infrastructure strategies with a combined capacity of about $1.7 billion to Australian institutional investors as it builds out its APAC presence. SUSI Partners currently has about $1.4 billion in ...

Global fund manager replaces COO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... of the year and will be replaced by Philipp Hensler. New York-based Hensler has been the president and chief executive of Swiss investment management firm Vontobel Asset Management for the last four-and-a-half years. Prior to Vontobel, he was the head ...

Advisers name top platform provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... continued shift to self-licensing is opening doors to new players - Intelliflo, Advice Intelligence, IRESS and Temenos and Swiss-based Avaloq are among them, he said. Frustrated advisers will soon have more choice and it's up to the incumbents to ...

MLC Life recruits head of underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... resulting in improved customer experience and higher productivity. He previously worked in senior management positions at AIG, Swiss Re and RGA. Kennedy commented that Jones joins at a time when MLC begins a new era of underwriting. "His experience across ...

Citi launches currency product, targets HNW investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Dollar, British Pound, Euro, Canadian Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar, Japanese Yen, New Zealand Dollar, Singapore Dollar and the Swiss Franc, and there is potential to expand the list based on customer demand.

Advisers can fill aged care demand gap: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... advisers' service offering and provide a new source of revenue in the medium-term, a joint study by Aged Care Steps and Swiss Re reveals. The research, which explored the challenges and fears around aged care, found about 90% of advisers surveyed anticipate ...

UBS restructures global wealth arms

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... ultra-high-net-worth clients, and rolled out a single technology platform covering the majority of client assets. Naratil joined the Swiss firm in 2000 and has since served in several executive roles. He was most recently president of wealth management ...

Vontobel expands distribution footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... potential for some of our prime capabilities like emerging debt, multi-sector bond and asset backed securities," he said. The Swiss firm recently won an Australian fixed income mandate, overseeing emerging markets debt and global equities strategies ...