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Calastone appoints new local head

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023
... Westpac and HSBC. She'll continue to maintain strong ties with Calastone's diverse client base, including fund managers, platform administrators, and unit registries, and will focus on driving and supporting new business initiatives as the industry ...

Campbell Lutyens opens local office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2023
... Australasian region focusing on fund placement and secondary transactions in response to increasing demand from fund managers and investors. The new head of Australasia has a long career in real assets investing on behalf of super funds, global fund ...

Local fund managers lag global peers: FSC

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2023
... the funds management industry report, prepared by KPMG, provided a snapshot of the industry, which includes 674 fund managers, 560,000 employees, 3656 managed investment schemes, and 6451 products. It said Australia's fund management industry boasts ...

EG grows private wealth strategy

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023
... recently reported by Financial Standard, Australia's private credit boom shows no signs of slowing down, as fund managers swoop in on the opportunities a rapidly rising interest rate environment presents. "As lending declines from the major banks ...

Magellan chief executive quits

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2023
... business is positioned to continue the journey to restore Magellan to its place as one of Australia's leading fund managers," said Formica. Commenting on his exit, George said Magellan remains a great business and he is proud to have supported the ...

Macquarie breaks into top 50 fund manager list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023
... manager on the list. The latest analysis by the Willis Towers Watson's Thinking Ahead Institute shows that Aussie fund managers performed relatively better than those from other developed markets in 2022 amidst the market disruption from soaring ...

abrdn's Brett Jollie lands new gig

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023
... having overhauled abrdn's local business, he was in pole position to advise peers. "To survive in this environment fund managers will need to run efficient business models and provide a strong value proposition to their clients. And not all fund managers ...

Internal teams gain decision-making power: Frontier

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023
Where chief investment officers were historically considered by fund managers to be the most influential person at a superannuation fund, fresh insights from Frontier show the balance of power has steadily shifted. According to Frontier, in 2017 about ...

Startup success hinges on founder personality: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023
... worked in tech before, or attended prestigious universities," he said. A separate study found that good-looking fund managers might be hired for marketing purposes, their not-so-attractive counterparts are likely recruited for their skills alone. Unattractive ...

The ugly truth: Unattractive fund managers are investment darlings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
... peers. In the first economics study to employ a deep learning model to quantify facial attractiveness, unattractive fund managers notched up an extra 0.17% in monthly returns, eclipsing those deemed more conventionally attractive. The study posited that ...