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Mirae Asset Management hires distribution head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
... Mirae Asset Global Investment to continue the growth of the Australian business," Wildman said. "We already have institutional clients here and are now looking to continue that momentum in wholesale and retail sector. "Increasingly Australian investors ...

Commercial property manager hires sales executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... real estate and private markets for Asia Pacific. At MaxCap, Van Beek will be responsible for capital raising with institutional and private investor clients on a global basis. He officially starts in mid-August and is initially based in Singapore. Van ...

APRA tells banks to prepare for financial storm clouds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
The chairman of Australia's prudential regulator wants banks to take advantage of a relatively good climate and build financial resilience before storm clouds form. Speaking at an Australian Business Economists lunch yesterday, APRA chairman Wayne Byres ...

CBA should have done more: Federal Court

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
The Federal Court judge who slapped the Commonwealth Bank with a $5 million pecuniary penalty over its role in setting the bank bill swap rate said the bank should have better supervised its staff. Justice Beach of the Federal Court delivered the assessment ...

IMF Bentham eyes potential Facebook, Cambridge Analytica goldmine

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... Statista, Facebook reported close to $55 billion in revenue for 2017. In the wake of the scandal, fund managers and institutional investors reassessed where Facebook sat within their overall ESG strategies. Most tellingly, BetaShares removed the platform ...

Contango hires K2 distribution heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... announcement that it would trim headcount from 25 people to nine, as it restructured business to focus away from the institutional market and towards the self-directed, self-managed superannuation market. The restructure followed Contango Asset Management's ...

EM bonds attractive despite pullback: Eaton Vance

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
The long-term case for emerging markets in bond portfolios is still strong, even though investors have pulled out billions in recent weeks, according to Eaton Vance. Investor sentiment on emerging markets swung negative in recent weeks on concerns over ...

Private equity firm closes $558m mining fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... global private equity firm with investments in Sydney and Perth mining companies has attracted interest from several institutional investors for its first mining fund. Denham Capital has just closed its Denham Mining Fund at $558 million. The firm says ...

BetaShares hires institutional executive from BlackRock

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
BetaShares has hired an executive from BlackRock's institutional sales team to fill a newly-created role. Dan Annan is joining the $5.6 billion exchange-traded product manager in the newly-created role of director - institutional business. He was ...

Advisers name top platform provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... managing director Angus Woods said. In the last three years, there has been "extraordinary movement" out of the institutional space and a 43% increase in the number of small licensees, he said. "AMP and the banks could often afford to have technology ...