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Grant Samuel expands to Brisbane

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... headed up by Steven Taylor, a former Queensland state manager at Challenger Group. He has also held positions at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Skandia and Macquarie Bank. "The time is right to have a person on the ground in Queensland," director and ...

Transaction-based fees hurt private banking clients

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013
Credit Suisse's Asia Pacific head of private banking Francesco de Ferrari has criticised the industry's commonplace transaction-based fee structures for not being in clients' best interests. He told Financial Standard that charging clients when they ...

Catastrophe bonds offer answer to asset correlation problem

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... There are a only a handful of group's globally that provide ILS products and while there are larger players, such as Credit Suisse and Fermat Capital, Nickles said that a small firm like Plenum offers investors certain advantages. "Larger players are ...

Baker & McKenzie tells industry to prepare for SIV 'bonanza'

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... Currently there are only a handful of specialist SIV-compliant product providers, including IOOF, ANZ, Legg Mason and Credit Suisse; but many more fund managers are expected to launch products as the program gathers momentum. While the majority of SIV ...

UBS nabs head of Investment Strategy from CFS

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... and economist roles at Baillie Gifford (Edinburgh), BT Investment Management, Westpac Investment Management and Credit Suisse First Boston. "We have had significant traction with clients for our absolute return, multi-asset and risk solutions as well ...

CFSGAM issues its first SIV product

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... large number of fund managers that have issued SIV-compliant products in the last months, including ANZ, Macquarie, Credit Suisse, Legg Mason and IOOF. CFSGAM manages more than $173 billion across a diverse range of asset classes including global listed ...

ANZ gets on the SIV bandwagon

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
ANZ Private has followed Macquarie and Credit Suisse with the launch of an investment solution for the government's Significant Investor Visa (SIV) program. The SIV is a scheme to attract foreign investment to the Australian economy. Applicants are ...

Three IOOF funds qualify for SIV program

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
... innovative solutions to their client's individual needs," IOOF general manager distribution Renato Mota said. Macquarie, Credit Suisse, the 888 Fund and Legg Mason are among the other fund managers to have announced similar qualifying SIV investment ...

Credit Suisse Asia Pac private banking chairman steps down

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2013
Credit Suisse chairman of private banking for the Asia Pacific region Marcel Kreis has stepped down from his role this month, the financial services company has confirmed. Kreis joined Credit Suisse in February 2007 as head of private banking for Asia ...

Credit Suisse to launch small-cap business with First NZ Capital

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
Credit Suisse and First NZ Capital have expanded their partnership to form a new business focused on the Australian small-cap sector. Credit Suisse Australia and the New Zealand stockbroker have held a strategic alliance since 2002. Credit Suisse said ...