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GPT Group restructures

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
GPT Group (GPT) has announced today changes to its leadership team and adjustments to its organisational structure. To ensure the logistics sector has the appropriate strategic and operational focus, GPT has created a separate logistics business unit ...

Former BT executive assumes CIO role

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
The former investments chief of BT Financial Group and Suncorp has landed a new role at a $49 billon UK fund manager. Patrick Farrell is the new head of research and chief investment officer at Charles Stanley. Farrell was BTFG's chief investment officer ...

Australia bucks concentration trend

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
New research on equity markets from S&P shows the ASX 200 has become more diversified as markets around the world have become more concentrated. "We can analyse stock concentration at a high level by using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI). This ...

Zurich expands group insurance leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
Zurich Life & Investments will soon welcome its first head of digital and member engagement within the group insurance team, hiring from Aware Super. Ahmad Racheha has been appointed to the newly created role at Zurich, effective next month. Racheha ...

Christian Super hires former Mercer executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
Christian Super has hired industry heavyweight David Stuart as investment chief, replacing Mark Rider who last month resigned to take up a similar role in the newly merged LGIAsuper and Energy Super. Stuart joins Christian Super following his most recent ...

Insto investors tempted by crypto

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
A new study shows close to 80% of institutional investors and wealth managers are now looking favourably upon cryptocurrencies, citing strong capital growth and diversification benefits. Commissioned by digital assets hedge fund manager Nickel Digital ...

Australian Unity appoints head of responsible investment

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
Australian Unity has appointed Matthew Moore as its first head of responsible investment and stewardship. Moore joins Australian Unity with over 20 years' experience in financial services, most recently as the head of ethical investments at Uniting ...

American Century introduces small-cap fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
American Century has launched a global small-cap fund targeting Australian wholesale investors. The American Century Global Small Cap Fund is actively managed, investing in companies operating in developed and emerging countries. It tracks the MSCI ...

Positive hiring outlook for 2022: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
Australian business leaders are overwhelmingly confident about their growth prospects in the coming year, according to new research from Robert Half. The latest independent C-suite research indicates that almost three-out-of-four (71%) Australian business ...

It will pay to keep employees happy: Fink

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
BlackRock founder and chief executive Larry Fink has urged chief executives to adjust to the new world of work ushered in by the pandemic, and stem staff turnover by listening to employees. In his annual letter to chief executives, Fink focussed on ...