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Willis Towers Watson buys Aussie broker

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019
Global advisory Willis Towers Watson has acquired Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The acquisition is effective immediately, enhancing WTW's offering to clients in ...

Australian equity markets remain clean: ASIC

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2019
... cannot operate with a high degree of integrity if people trade with inside information." "We expect all parties involved in mergers and acquisitions to put in place meaningful confidentiality controls at the start of a transaction - and make sure the ...

Wealth jobs in demand

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... said 47% of wealth management employers surveyed indicated they intend to increase permanent staff levels. The firm said mergers and acquisitions, the FASEA exam and moves by the big four banks to move their wealth arms had led to "mass redundancies" ...

LGIAsuper to stand on its own

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... responsible for their life savings. But while the fund is committed to finding the best value for its members, Farrar said mergers are off the table. "Investment philosophies and cultures have to align to make a merger successful and we have consciously ...

Super fund appoints investment lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... as its new chief investment officer, bringing with him more than 20 years' experience in super, investment management, mergers and acquisitions and private equity. Hazell joined Crescent Wealth from Sydney venture capital firm Nightingale Partners, where ...

Statewide Super cans merger plans

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019
... look for ways to deliver greater value, improve returns, and negotiate better insurance cover, and we know that sometimes mergers are the best way to deliver this."

Aberdeen Standard hires retirement head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... advising the firm's clients - the wealth arms of the big banks and super funds of all persuasions - on retirement, wraps, mergers and acquisitions and "other transformation areas." Nyilas also spent 10 years at IBM as the firm's global pensions leader ...

Regional Australia Bank and Holiday Coast merge

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2019
... meetings this week. The vote resulted in over 90% of members agreeing to a resolution that will now see one of the largest mergers in the customer owned banking sector in recent times. The sector continues consolidate as it struggles to attain the necessary ...

Industry fund dips toes in private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... at private equity managers with a mandate to follow soon. "We have some very small, legacy positions as a result of the mergers over the fund's history. But we now are now looking at starting a position," Block said. The Sydney-based fund has increased ...

Industry funds announce $26bn joint venture

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2019
... Equipsuper has chased scale for the past few years through two channels: the tender consultants to win mandates and through mergers. It has had success in both. Last year a company in the Emirates Group awarded Equip a $190 million corporate super mandate ...