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Zurich Australia appoints investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
Zurich Financial Services has confirmed the promotion of its deputy chief investment officer to chief investment officer. Yile Chen replaces Mathew Drennan who has served in the role since late 2022. Drennan was promoted from head of savings and investments ...

Brandes appoints new sales director for APAC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
San Diego-headquartered boutique advisory firm Brandes Investment Partners has appointed an Australian to be its director of sales in APAC, in an effort to deepen its relationships across the region's wealth market. Brandes appointed Diya Lowe, formerly ...

RBA flags concerns over 'geopolitical uncertainties'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2025
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) left interest rates unchanged at 4.1% at the April meeting - coming as little surprise to markets and economists. However, the central bank flagged ongoing uncertainty amid fears US tariffs could impact global growth. ...

Iress enhances US equity market data feed with Cboe

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2025
Iress' in-house application programming interface (API) technology QuantHouse is collaborating with Cboe Global Markets to increase its US equity market data offering through the Cboe One Feed. The Cboe One Feed, available for all QuantHouse clients ...

FNZ wins mandate, names APAC head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2025
FNZ has been handed a mandate by a $56 billion industry super fund, while also welcoming a Sydney-based head of Asia Pacific. The wealth technology platform has been selected by CareSuper to take over as its direct investment option (DIO) provider ...

Underperforming managers in China could see pay halved

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2025
The markets regulator in China is threatening to slash the pay of fund managers by 50% if they underperform their benchmarks as part of a shake-up of the US$4.6 trillion mutual fund industry, according to a report. A Bloomberg article shows that the ...

Iress hires wealth tech experts

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2025
... respectively. In the newly created role, Masson will be responsible for driving the vision, strategy and delivery of Iress' APAC wealth product portfolio and technology infrastructure. For his part, Johnson will be accountable for the delivery and ...

Swiss fund manager expands in Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
Swiss investment firm Youngtimers AG has expanded in the region with the acquisition of Sydney-based Richmond Funds Management (RFM). Youngtimers is set to acquire RFM, which has more than $200 million in assets under management (AUM) from Senry Holdings. ...

Andrew Lill to run investments at legalsuper

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
Andrew Lill has been appointed interim chief investment officer at legalsuper. Lill will oversee the $6.4 billion super fund's investments while it searches for a permanent replacement for Paul Murray. Lill was previously chief investment officer ...

Aussie ETF market tipped to hit $300bn in 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... which has become the fastest-growing ETF market at a whopping 75% growth year on year. State Street head of ETF solutions, APAC Ahmed Ibrahim said the Australian ETF market continues to mature and is achieving nearly 30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) ...