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Frontier hires new real assets lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
Frontier Advisors has added a former Westbourne Capital executive to head up its real assets team. The investment consulting firm has tasked Lucy Minichiello with leading a dedicated team of eight infrastructure and property specialists and further ...

Westpac names new chief executive of wealth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2025
Westpac has appointed Paul Fowler to the role of chief executive, business and wealth, to take over the role from the acting chief executive mid-year. Westpac said Fowler is an exceptional leader in financial services and brings a career spanning more ...

Australian Ethical loses super chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... the Christmas break. "I've had a wonderful seven years at Christian Super and then Australian Ethical following the merger, and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to serve and lead in both organisations," he said. "However, I'm now excited ...

Government to streamline financial reporting

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... complements our other efforts to better target regulation across the economy, including through the biggest overhaul to merger settings in 50 years and our changes to strengthen and streamline the foreign investment regime." The consultation paper seeks ...

Ausfood Super appoints chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Australian Food Super, the superannuation fund set up for employees in the meat industry, has named Michael Sykes as its new chief executive. Formerly known as the Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust or AMIST Super, the fund has $3 billion ...

Team Super names retirement chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
A former Aware Super head of advice has been appointed chief retirement officer at Team Super ahead of its merger with TWUSUPER to create a $21 billion fund. Reporting to chief executive Vasyl Nair, Sarah Forman has taken up the new role at Team Super ...

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs top M&A advisory rankings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs were the leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisors in the financial services sector last year, in terms of deal volume, according to GlobalData. The data and analytics firm's analysis revealed that Morgan Stanley ...

Natixis, Generali merger creates $3.2tn fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2025
Natixis Investment Managers will combine with Generali Investments Holdings (GIH) to create a behemoth with €1.9 trillion ($3.2tn) in assets under management (AUM). The Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Natixis' owner BPCE and GIH's ...

Super moves: Future Fund, QIC, Vanguard Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... corporate affairs, product, and policy until march 2023. Moreover, Whatley was interim chief executive of Sunsuper before its merger with Qsuper, and has also led Sunsuper's strategy, brand and marketing, and product design. Also joining the Vanguard ...

Bennelong secures first trustee mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... financial services having previously run the distribution integration at abrdn (formerly Aberdeen Asset Management) during its merger with Standard Life and served as chief operating officer at Columbia Threadneedle Investments.