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EISS Super director joins Macquarie board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
... development of capital markets instruments, Macquarie said. He spent 23 years at Deutsche Bank, including 10 years as head of mergers and acquisitions. Rebecca McGrath spent 25 years at BP, including as the chief financial officer of BP Australasia from ...

Morningstar introduces new platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
... their disposal. "Financial advisory firms are seeing an increasing need to be able to evaluate moments in time such as mergers and acquisitions, stock splits, security trades, and governmental and regulatory updates alongside research and valuation data ...

WTW appoints Australia segment head

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... financial solutions segment. Jeffers left the firm. In August, 2019 it bought Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. WTW is the third-largest asset consultant by assets in ...

FS team picks: The top stories for 2020

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... There's no denying the superannuation industry is a secretive one, and large swathes of it go unreported. Of all the mergers and successor fund transfers that took place this year, Financial Standard was first and often the only publication across ...

How far are we from a trillion-dollar super fund?

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... businesses, implying about 10% of Australia's population is a member with the fund. AustralianSuper has stayed away from mergers in recent years, dissimilar to Aware Super (formerly First State Super), which currently has about $135 billion in assets ...

New AMP Australia chief executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
... During Hartley's time at Sunsuper, the industry fund grew to be the fourth largest in the country and went through two mergers - with Kinetic Super and Austsafe Super. "Scott has an excellent track record in transforming and growing wealth and investment ...

US regulator, states sue Facebook

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... anti-competitive conditions on software developers and for Facebook to be required to seek prior notice and approval for all future mergers and acquisitions. "For nearly a decade, Facebook has used its dominance and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals ...

Rice Warner hires former First State deputy chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... services, unit pricing and other investment operations, as well as member administration platforms and operations, fund mergers and advice delivery, Rice Warner said. "I am delighted to join the Rice Warner team and look forward to combining my experiences ...

Super funds bullish on hiring

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
... roles. McGilton said: "Across the industry there have been very few redundancies, and most redundancies have come due to mergers, namely First State Super and VicSuper and Equip and Catholic Super, mostly these were senior executives." "Some projects ...

Jarden continues Australian expansion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2020
... after starting her investment banking career with Goldman Sachs in Sydney. McCormack was most recently responsible for mergers and acquisitions and financing advisory across Goldman Sachs' North American chemicals business. In her new role, Jarden said ...