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Kinetic Super hires head of product

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... IPO during her time there. She has experience in both the corporate and not-for-profit sectors within Australia and the Pacific Islands and has been at the forefront of advocating organisations to embrace product and service innovation opportunities. ...

Executive appointment round-up

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
LUCRF Super head of investments is leaving and J.P. Morgan Asset Management has appointed a chief executive of Asia Pacific, global investment management. These are among the list of the biggest industry moves this week. UniSuper appoints legal specialists ...

Henderson reveals costs of Australian acquisitions

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... from us in the remainder of this year. But as we move into 2016 we will look at options." Executive chairman for Asia Pacific Rob Adams said that over the coming months "we will be working with clients of both Perennial businesses to renovate agreements ...

JPMAM appoints APAC chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has appointed the chief executive of Asia Pacific, Global Investment Management (GIM). Michael Falcon was previously head of JPMAM's Asia Pacific funds and he replaces outgoing chief Jed Laskowitz, who will transition ...

Adapt or die, asset managers warned

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... asset owners. State Street surveyed 400 senior executives from investment management firms from Europe, the US and Asia Pacific. Some 96% of asset managers said they were under pressure to reduce their costs and just under half expect competition from ...

Northern Trust wins UCA mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2015
... It has grown to more than $970 million in funds under management. Northern Trust head of global fund services for Asia-Pacific, Peter Jordan, said the custodian works in partnership with fund manager clients to support them through Northern Trust's global ...

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... adding that the fund manager can divest from particular stocks if their clients demand it. Ariel Investments head of Asia Pacific Ian M. Webber added: "At the end of the day what we try to do is to invest money to deliver good returns to end users who ...

Standard Life expands Asia investment team

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... portfolio manager at Goldman Sachs Asset Management) will refine Standard Life's multi-asset product suite in the Asia-Pacific region and will report to global head of investment specialists Jonathan Price. Commenting on the appointments, Price said ...

Citi launches fintech challenge

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Citi is launching the Asia-Pacific Mobile Challenge, a competition for fintech developers to build mobile tools for Citi's digital platform. Australian developers will compete with others across the APAC region and will demonstrate their ideas at Citi-hosted ...

Growth or crisis, always reasons to worry in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... wouldn't look better if the world's four largest economies started to thrive again, BNY Mellon managing director for Asia Pacific Simon Cox said. At the presentation of BNY Mellon's new white paper, 'G4: Undiminished expectations', Cox said: "There are ...