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Vicinity Centres partners for $1bn wholesale property fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... Australia Retail Fund (VKF). Vicinity and Keppel will each hold 10% equity in the fund. Keppel Capital will attract potential Asian investors through its extensive network of investors. Beyond from the $1bn initial seeding, the fund's ongoing investment ...

Digital advice, fintech firms merge

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... the investment and insurance products group. His SuperEd co-founder Jeremy Duffield founded Vanguard's Australian and Asian operations, and led them from 1996 to 2000. Jeremy Duffield and Paul Rogan's working relationship goes back a long way. ...

ASIC provides guidance on Asia Funds Passport

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... the Federal Government passed the Corporations Amendment (Asia Region Funds Passport) Bill 2018 in an effort to open up Asian markets for Australian financial services companies with limited additional regulatory intervention. The Government aims to ...

Vanguard shutters Singapore office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2018
... investment manager believes this course of action will increase efficiencies and enable it to better serve clients in the Asian market. "We will continue to invest in the Hong Kong office as a support hub for the Asia region and as a base for sales ...

Westpac names independent director

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
... "She has extensive experience in wholesale and retail banking and alongside her active promotion of the development of the Asian financial landscape, provides diversity of experience and skills to the board of Australia's first bank," he said. Maxsted ...

Aviva appoints insto lead from Russell

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2018
... end. Earlier this month, Aviva Investors tapped in former Macquarie and Mercer senior executive Tom Clapham to head its Asian institutional sales. On May 31, LaSalle Investment Management acquired Aviva's $7 billion real estate multi-manager business ...

Franklin Templeton appoints managing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2018
Franklin Templeton Investments has appointed a managing director and head of investments solutions for its Asian business, capitalising on a strong demand for goals-based investment strategies in the region. Subash Pillai joined Franklin Templeton in ...

Mirae Asset Management hires distribution head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
The $171 billion global asset manager has hired a local distribution head to grow its Asian equities offerings in the Australian market. Joining Mirae Asset Management is Don Gunawan as its head of wholesale and retail distribution. In his most recent ...

Sovereign investors change tack: Invesco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... Asia and Korea, Terry Pan said that global sovereign investors have made clear their interest in equity exposure, although Asian sovereigns have less exposure than global peers. "The return of market volatility this year has been anticipated by sovereign ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... depreciation in shielding the domestic economy from worries galore. The AUD/US sank from US$0.80 to below US$60 during the Asian financial crisis; it fell from around US$0.65 to US$0.49 during the US recession in 2001 and following the September 11 attacks ...