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Kim Ivey launches new boutique

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
... boutique and building out its investment team. LSL Partners will develop alternative investment products focusing on the Asian region. Its first product, the Fury Fund, is a long/short Asian equity absolute return fund with an expected overweighting ...

IFM Investors expands in Korea, appoints client director

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... office, alongside our presence in Hong Kong and Japan, will further broaden and deepen our client relations across the Asian region. It will provide the ability to pool client mandates in a deliberate and disciplined way, opening further investment opportunities ...

Credit firm expands to Hong Kong

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... Asia has played, and will continue to play a pivotal role to the organisation's shape and future expansion into the Asian region," O'Neill said. La Trobe was recently a finalist in the 2017 Financial Standard MAX Awards, held in Sydney in June. Read ...

CFSGAM grows investments team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... projects domestically with a value of $2 billion and successfully tendered for water and sewerage business in the Asian region. "With changes to water industry regulations in most Australian states, it is now possible for institutional investors like ...

Insurance giant appoints Australian underwriter to Asia role

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... Far East - environmental risk Kane Bennett. He will oversee Chubb's environmental risk portfolio across the whole Asian region. Prior to Chubb, McCauley was an environmental consultant at contaminated land consulting company JBS&G, where he became familiar ...

Foreign managers priced out of super

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... de Silva said. "Costs come from salaries that are high relative to those that are paid in other countries in the Asian region, high personal and corporate taxes, and an industrial relations regime that makes it difficult to adjust staffing in response ...

Australia, a tough nut to crack

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... market is already $2 trillion and that its mutual funds market is "arguably among the most highly developed in the Asian region, the challenge that foreign asset managers face in trying to penetrate the market are manifold". Managers will need deep pockets ...

Competitiveness at risk from STEM fall-off

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... trend continues Australia's competitive edge will be dulled, "Financial services is a key area of competition in the Asian region. And as we observed in our research on the fintech sector, a strong university and STEM skill-base is a key ingredient in ...

Funds under management to hit $8tr by 2035: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... simplified and lowered significantly so we can effectively compete for financial services trade opportunities in the Asian region," said Sally Loane, chief executive officer at the Financial Services Council (FSC). "We urge the Government to address ...

FSC proposes Budget fixes to boost fin services exports

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... boost growth, investment and employment, Australian financial services providers must be allowed to compete in the Asian region for new investors," Bragg said. "Australia's tax and regulatory systems force our financial services businesses to fight with ...