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Mercer grows ESG team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Centre for Corporate Governance at Yale University. Mercer Partner and head of Mercer's Responsible Investments for Asia Pacific, Helga Birgden, said: "Implementing sustainable growth in investments is vital to the risk, return and reputation of our ...

SSgA ETF head leaves following appointment of new boss

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) Asia Pacific head of ETFs Frank Henze has stood down after more than three and a half years with the company. Henze's resignation follows a reshuffle of SSgA's Asia Pacific intermediary business group which saw James ...

Russell reshuffles implementation business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... experience in implementation services and transition management. He was previously director, transition management, Asia Pacific for BNY Mellon, responsible for new transition management business. Prior to this, Venardos held senior implementation services ...

CBA brings in foreign expertise for board

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... London's 2012 Olympic venues are joining Commonwealth Bank's board. Shirish Apte, a former chief executive of Citi Asia Pacific, will join as a non-executive director on June 10. Sir David Higgins, chairman of the company currently developing a high ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... The number of exam registrations for this year's December 2013 to June 2014 exam cycle exceeds 211,000. Regionally, Asia Pacific continues to be the largest source of candidates, with 63,021 registered for the June 2014 exam, accounting for 42% of the ...

SSgA appoints head of intermediary business

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has appointed James MacNevin as head its intermediary business group for the Asia Pacific region, to lead the firm's expansion in this channel. SSgA's intermediary business group, which partners with financial intermediaries ...

ANZ reshuffle drops Australian chief economist role

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... economist Warren Hogan." ANZ will continue to provide analysis of key economic events in Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific and the spokesperson confirmed that its job ads series would continue as usual. The recently introduced consumer sentiment ...

Franklin Templeton nabs Deutsche AWM bond specialists

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... will be based in Melbourne. Siniakov and Canobi have worked together since 2001. Siniakov was head of fixed income Asia Pacific at Deutsche AWM where he had responsibility for $7 billion in fixed income client portfolios. He has also held various portfolio ...

IOOF awards $115m global equities mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... portfolio level across all of our products. We believe this equity strategy will help us do that," he said. SSgA Asia Pacific managing director of relationship management Peter Mitchell added: "SSgA has worked with the IOOF MultiMix investment team for ...

Liquidnet appoints Asia-Pacific COO

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has appointed Andrew Walton as chief operating officer for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Based in Hong Kong, Walton will manage member services, electronic trading systems and finance and administration functions ...