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Superhero, Swyftx in $1.5bn merger

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022
Superhero and Swyftx will merge to establish a $1.5 billion financial services giant with over 800,000 customers. The partnership between digital asset broker Swyftx and share trading and investment and superannuation platform Superhero is expected ...

Perpetual launches Barrow Hanley ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... class of its respective managed fund, the Barrow Hanley Global Share Fund. Recently the Global Share Fund was upgraded to Gold by Morningstar Analyst Ratings. Perpetual Asset Management Australia group executive Amanda Gillespie said: "In November last ...

Qantas Super invests $2bn in Calvert, Goldman Sachs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
Qantas Super has announced a $2 billion investment in Calvert Research and Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management to reduce its carbon intensity. The corporate super fund hopes the partnership with Calvert and Goldman Sachs will help it achieve ...

Four join Payton Capital team

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2022
Payton Capital has announced the appointments of two investment directors and two non-executive directors. Joining the Payton Capital team is Jake Ireland, Daphne Chang, Meredith Scott and Claire Rogers. ​Ireland has been appointed investment director ...

ETFS Physical Gold to be split 10:1

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022
ETF Securities is conducting a 10:1 share split on its $2.6 billion ETFS Physical Gold product (GOLD). The split, which will be effective from June 8, would see owners of GOLD receive nine additional shares for each share they currently hold. Correspondingly ...

Goldman Sachs strengthens leveraged finance team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
Goldman Sachs has hired Colin Mathews to run leveraged finance in Australia and New Zealand. Currently, the New York-based Mathews co-leads oil and gas coverage within the leveraged finance group. In his new role, he will assume responsibility for the ...

Superhero board signs former ASIC boss

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
Former ASIC chair James Shipton has joined the board of Superhero. The trading platform, which launched in September 2020, has close to 200,000 investors and rolled out zero brokerage US share trading as well as its flagship superannuation offering. ...

No place for crypto in insto portfolios: PGIM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... institutional investor. The research found crypto is an unreliable diversifier and an inadequate safe-haven asset or inflation hedge; gold performs better on this front and has done so since the 1970s, PGIM said. It also found that risk-adjusted returns ...

PIMCO selects new head of local business

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
PIMCO has announced Samuel Watkins as executive vice president and head of business for Australia and New Zealand. Watkins will have local oversight of business management functions and report to the head of Asia-Pacific Alec Kersman. In this role ...

OC Funds Management snares senior investment analyst

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2022
OC Funds Management has hired Aaron Yeoh as a senior investment analyst. Reporting to the head of investment Robert Frost, Yeoh will be responsible for research and analysis of Australian small and mid-cap companies. Yeoh will also add to the team's ...