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Zurich appoints Macquarie vets

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Zurich has appointed two senior Macquarie Life personnel to its management team. Following Macquarie's agreement to sell its Macquarie Life insurance business to Zurich in March, Zurich has recruited current Macquarie Life head of commercial management ...

AustralianSuper hits the $100bn mark

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
AustralianSuper's retirement funds under management have reached $100 billion for the first time. Australia's largest super fund attributed this to new members and reduced costs. Furthermore, the fund's scale has allowed it greater direct investment ...

AMP Life appeals Supreme Court ruling

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
AMP Life has appealed a Supreme Court ruling preventing it from voting at the upcoming extraordinary general meeting for the AMP Capital China Growth Fund (AGF). The Supreme Court decided on June 22 that AMP Life, which holds roughly 36% of units in ...

Credit Suisse MD resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
Credit Suisse's managing director, investment banking has resigned. Matthew Tehan was co-head of debt and derivatives, having joined Credit Suisse in 1999. He shared the role with Michael Tierney, who will now take sole responsibility for this area. ...

Last-minute accountant AFSL applications creating ASIC backlog

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
Now that the deadline for accountants to apply for limited or full Australian financial services licenses to continue providing SMSF advice has been reached, a substantial number of applications are still being assessed due to late submissions. In fact ...

ASIC finalises IOOF inquiry

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
ASIC has concluded its inquiry into allegations of insider trading and governance breaches made against IOOF. In the case of insider trading, where an IOOF employee was alleged to have traded in securities prior to the release of IOOF's research report ...

Westpac hires senior compliance manager from CommSec

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
Westpac has appointed a new senior compliance manager. Dorota Piotrowicz joins Westpac from CommSec, where she was a risk senior manager. Prior to that, she worked in operational risk at BNP Paribas and was an internal audit manager at Macquarie. This ...

Morningstar introduces global risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
Morningstar has launched its first global risk model for investors. The risk model is targeted at equity portfolios at the outset, but Morningstar plans to expand to other asset classes in the future. It currently evaluates over 40,000 stocks and 10,000 ...

Fund managers fleeing UK post-Brexit: Preqin

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
Roughly a third of alternatives managers are investing less in the UK as a response to the Brexit referendum, according to Preqin research. The research, based on a survey of 140 alternative assets firms and 50 institutional investors, showed that the ...

Deutsche AM appoints APAC real estate head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
Deutsche Asset Management has appointed a managing director and head of real estate, Asia Pacific. Victoria Sharpe joins Deutsche AM from TH Real Estate, where she was head of the global client capital group. Before that, she was managing director at ...