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Frontier on hiring spree

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
Frontier has flagged hiring appetite for senior consultant and research roles, as it announces eight new additions including a senior consultant from CitiBank. Jill Guan has joined Frontier as a senior consultant specialising in debt and currency. She ...

Lazard restructures Australian business

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
International financial advisory and asset management firm Lazard has confirmed it is undertaking a restructure of its Australian business. The reorganisation of the firm in Australia will not change anything for Lazard Asset Management. However, it ...

Mercer hires from Australian Unity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
Mercer has hired the former chief executive of Australian Unity Bank to lead its superannuation services. Tim Barber will step into the head of Mercer Super role, leading the flagship Mercer Super Trust and its related portfolio services business. Mercer ...

High Court dismisses Westpac appeal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2021
The High Court has affirmed the Federal Court's 2019 decision that two Westpac subsidiaries provided unlicensed personal financial advice. In a decision handed down today, the High Court of Australia dismissed Westpac's appeal, determining the ...

New global equities ETF to launch

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
An Edinburgh-based global equities manager is launching an ETF down under with third-party distributor Apostle Funds Management. The Apostle Dundas Global Equity Fund is looking for a February listing with the ticker ADEF. The strategy, which invests ...

HUB24 completes Paragem sale

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
HUB24 has confirmed the completion of the sale of Paragem to a subsidiary Easton and announced a new member of the Easton board. HUB24 confirmed the completion of the Paragem sale to the ASX saying it has now received the 3.3 million Easton shares issued ...

Super fund ESG targets lack clarity: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
Superannuation funds need to set clear, transparent emissions reduction targets for their investment portfolios that are based on metrics that can be compared across the industry, according to recommendations from the Australasian Centre for Corporate ...

ASIC winds up Mayfair 101 debenture issuer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
ASIC has succeeded in winding up the issuer of Mayfair 101's debenture products, with the Federal Court ordering M101 Nominees to wind up. The is the first outcome arising from ASIC's ongoing actions against Mayfair 101 Group and its director James ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a shallower contraction in world output for the year ended 2020 - minus 3.5%, down from the October forecast of a 4.4% contraction and the 4.9% decline it ...

Clime consolidates SMAs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
Clime Investment Management has streamlined its operations by consolidating and replacing a number of separately managed accounts (SMAs) after its acquisition of Madison Financial Group. The investment manager initiated its Project Streamline by consolidating ...