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Willis Towers Watson buys Aussie broker

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
... part of WTW 's FINEX global line of business, which provides clients with specialist advice and services. WTW head of Australasia Simon Weaver said: "RCA is the foremost team in Australasia for Warranty and Indemnity insurance. This offering builds on ...

Global manager hires from Magellan

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... of advisory and discretionary assets worldwide, including more than $3 billion from 30 institutional investors in Australasia. On the wholesale side, to which Bullock was appointed, GQG offers a global equities fund and an emerging markets equity fun ...

AMP Life sale blocked

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... AMP Life with a view to leading the business post its transition to Resolution Life as head of the Resolution Life Australasia region. "Megan Beer remains chief executive of AMP Life. It's business as usual at AMP Life while we work with Resolution Life ...

UBS appoints new country heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
UBS has appointed new co-country heads for Australasia, as Matthew Grounds announces his plans to retire from the firm. Grounds will retire at the end of the year after 11 years as UBS Australasia's country head and chief executive. "Matthew has been ...

Sydney advice firm loses AFSL

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... Sydney financial advice firm has had its AFSL cancelled by ASIC after an initial suspension period. ASIC earlier put Australasia Wealth Services and Management in suspension saying the firm had failed to obtain membership of the Australian Financial ...

JANA hires operations lead, boosts workforce

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
Asset consultant JANA has recently welcomed a new head of operations and made a raft of appointments in a bid to boost its footprint. John Montague joined the Melbourne-based firm in the newly created role after working as a consultant for the past ...

Responsible investments outperform mainstream

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
The latest Benchmark Report by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia (RIAA) shows responsible investment funds outperform most mainstream funds. Using KPMG data, the report shows responsible funds on average deliver higher returns across ...

KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... AMP. Blight-Johnston also served as the managing director for AMP Life and the National Mutual Life Association of Australasia (NMLA), where she led the development of insurance and superannuation products. She also designed and implemented remediation ...

AMP Life appoints temporary investment chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2019
... Life and Resolution Life announced Megan Beer as the new chief executive of AMP Life and the head of Resolution Life Australasia.

MSCI adds former Aberdeen Standard distribution lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... distribution efforts of Aberdeen Standard Investments for a period of 12 months. Prior to the merger, she was head of Australasia for Standard Life for seven years. She has also previously held roles with Morgan Stanley, Henderson Global Investors and ...