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Robeco specialist poached by Northern Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
A senior member of Robeco's local quant team has quit the Dutch asset manager to join a former colleague at Northern Trust Asset Management. Jan Rohof - the firm's technical quant investment specialist based in Sydney - is joining former Robecco ...

Longreach hires Channel Capital sales lead, launches advisory firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024
Longreach Alternatives has poached the former sales lead of Channel Capital to spearhead its new business unit dedicated to fundraising and distributing its products. Andrew King, who finished up with Channel Capital in May 2023, popped up at fledgling ...

Koda Capital poaches five JBWere advisers

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2024
Five JBWere financial advisers will jump ship to Koda Capital as the latter expands its presence in Melbourne. Simon Talbot spent more than 23 years at NAB's JBWere where he was most recently a director and senior wealth adviser. Elizabeth Watson joins ...

Non-compete clauses come under the microscope

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2024
Treasury has released a new consultation paper, Non-competes and other restraints: understanding the impacts on jobs, business and productivity, finding that these restrictions could have a "chilling effect" on the workforce. "The impacts of non-compete ...

Macquarie brings long-awaited ETFs to market

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has launched its first range of actively managed ETFs in Australia, offering a listed access point to its managed funds. In a statement, MAM said the launch provides local investors with the transparency and convenience ...

Ignition poaches from Bravura Solutions

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2023
Former Bravura Solutions head of portfolio solutions Darren Speirs is set to become Ignition Advice's new business development director for Asia Pacific. Speirs brings over 25 years' experience in the Australian wealth management industry, the last ...

Professionalise sustainability within funds: Panel

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
A panel on the impacts of climate change has heard how, as ESG approaches evolve, super funds must be conscious of their competency in the space and have processes for measuring it. Appearing at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, UTS Institute ...

Bolster your retention efforts: Robert Half

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
With close to 90% of employers afraid they'll lose their best team members to new opportunities, 80% of them are planning to increase salaries by an average of 11.4% this year. Latest insights from Robert Half looking at the financial services sector ...

Non-negotiables for recruiting in the new normal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
The wealth management industry is not immune to the great resignation, but there are ways to avoid being hit too hard, Super Recruiters says. The recruitment agency said that while many wealth management organisations are striving to get back to the ...

DTCC poaches longstanding BNY Mellon executive

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2022
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Francis (Frank) La Salla as president and chief executive of the company, effective August 12. La Salla joins DTCC following a 28-year career at BNY Mellon, where he held several senior-level ...