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Future Fund hires chief economist

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
The $199 billion sovereign wealth fund hired from Wellington Management for its inaugural chief economist. Toby Johnston will commence the role on January 27 and will report directly to the Future Fund's chief investment officer Sue Brake. He will lead ...

New shareholder at Crescent Wealth

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
The head of Peregrine Corporation, managing director Charlie (Khalil) Shahin has joined Australia's only Islamic super fund and investment manager. Shahin purchased a material shareholding in Crescent Wealth through his family office and joined its ...

Future Fund appoints portfolio strategy lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
The $179 billion sovereign wealth fund has promoted internally to appoint a deputy chief investment officer for portfolio strategy. Ben Samild was named to the role, which was left vacant in December 2020 after Sue Brake moved to Future Fund's chief ...

Sydney boutique to buy a slice of Investec assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
A Sydney private debt manager will acquire a portion of South African Investec's local debt portfolio, as the latter exits Australia. Metrics Credit Partners has reached an agreement to buy Investec's local corporate and acquisition finance ...

Investec to close Aussie business

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
The South African wealth manager and banking group is exiting the Australian market after 20 years. The company said the move is not a reflection of performance of the Australian business or employees, but a "strategic exit" to focus on its core markets ...

Industry Fund Services adopts regtech solution

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... existing processes for risk management and compliance. The solution is a human-assisted machine learning AI platform called SAMI - Surveillance and Monitoring Intelligence - which is designed to aid licensee oversight of advice quality and audit effectiveness. ...

Investec scores ADI licence

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
Investec Bank plc has received the green light from APRA to provide banking services in Australia from July 1. Investec Bank plc, which is owned by London Stock Exchange-listed Investec plc, is now operating as a foreign ADI. BNP Paribas, Societe Generale ...

Future Fund reshuffles investment team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
The Future Fund announced a raft of changes to its investment team as it looks to grow over the next decade. Head of property Barry Brakey is leaving the Future Fund after 10 years. He led the development of a quality property portfolio with exposures ...

New lead for BNY Mellon APAC custody business

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
BNY Mellon will welcome a new Asia Pacific head of asset servicing from Northern Trust. Rohan Singh has been appointed to the role, leaving Northern Trust where he was most recently country head, Singapore and head of South East Asia. To be based in ...

Fiducian appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Fiducian Group has appointed a new director. Samir Hallab joins Fiducian's board as the chief financial officer of Ensurance. Prior to that, he was the deputy chief executive of Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund. At the same fund ...