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PROFILE: BlackRock head of corporate governance Pru Bennett

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... was great for business." Bennett, now head of BlackRock's corporate governance and responsible investment team for Asia-Pacific, had already accrued plenty of experience with governance prior to some of the biggest corporate downfalls of the early noughties. ...

Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... Survey for 2015 revealed that Australian HNWs' allocation to real estate is 30.8% of their portfolios, the highest in Asia Pacific (average 21.4%) and higher than the world average of 17.6%. However the exposure has lowered over the last year from 33.1% ...

State Street appoints APAC markets head

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
State Street has appointed a new head of global markets sales and trading and research for the Asia-Pacific region. Colin Zhong joined State Street from UBS, where he specialised in "currency and fixed income rates products in locations including Hong ...

FEATURE - Retirement income: Finding the right path

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Advisors (SSGA) and Rice Warner report - The Australian Retirement Vision Survey. SSGA head of portfolio strategists Asia-Pacific, Jonathan Shead03, says the report identified a "dis-link between people being comfortable about retirement but not necessarily ...

Mercer selects customer management platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
Mercer has selected PractiFI as its core platform for customer management. Mercer leader of financial services Pacific, Andrew Godfrey, said PractiFI will help track every interaction in a single customer view and manage workflows across customer service ...

Japan joins Asia Region Funds Passport

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
Japan and five other countries from the Asia Pacific region will join the Asia Region Funds Passport, which will ease the trade of managed funds within economies in Asia. South Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Australia will also participate ...

IOOF appoints head of best advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... IOOF-owned SFG Australia. Cortex is the licensee service provider for SFG Australia licenses, which include Shadforth, Western Pacific and Outlook Financial Services. For the last two years, Cullen has been responsible for the division's advice policy ...

SSgA launches smart beta multi factor ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... factor conviction, constraints and style," SSGA senior vice president and head of the intermediary business group in Asia Pacific, James MacNevin said. "We're now making access to this strategy easier for investors through the form of an ETF, gaining ...

Vanguard to launch international fixed income ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... classes, using ETFs." At the Vanguard ETFs in Practice event in Sydney, Vanguard head of investment strategy group, Asia-Pacific Jeffrey Johnson went into further detail about the importance of fixed income ETF investing. He mentioned the serious under-representation ...

JPMAM launches insto investment insights app

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Commenting on the launch, JPMAM head of sovereign and institutional, Asia Pacific ex-Japan Rachel Farrell said the app will "provide institutional investors with immediate access to JPMAM's extensive and insightful ...