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GWA opens Melbourne office

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... Sutton returns to Australia to manage the Melbourne office after being appointed managing director of the Asia Pacific region. He reports to GWA UK chief executive, David Morris. Sutton previously worked at Goldman Sachs JB Were as a quantitative analyst ...

Cost of share trading spikes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... what trading strategies to use this year. ITG highlighted that average trading costs varied widely in the Asia Pacific region. India, China and Korea shares were the cheapest places to trade with an average trading cost of around 20bp. In contrast, trading ...

Former State Street head jumps to RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... weeks. Travers will be based in Sydney and has over 20 years of experience in investor services within the Asia Pacific region. Prior to his head of investment role, he was chief operating officer at State Street. Before that Travers was vice president ...

Northern Trust granted Aussie bank licence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... government will take Northern Trust to the next level in Australia, a key market for our development plans in the Asia Pacific region and globally," said Gregg Behrens, Northern Trust head of Asia Pacific business. Northern Trust had more than $6 trillion ...

Banks to reprioritise IT spending

THESHEET.COM WITH ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... billion in 2008 to US$US11.7 billion in 2009. Last week it revised downwards its ICT spending forecast for the Asia Pacific region, estimating 8.3 per cent growth in 2009 instead of 11 per cent. Several banks have already said they will make sizeable ...

Changing of the guard at Russell

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... promoted to lead the firm's international business operations. Russell's long-time chief executive of the Asia Pacific region, Alan Schoenheimer, has been promoted to head up Russell's international business based in London. The role expands Schoenheimer's ...

WW revises structure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... research in Asia, North America and Europe respectively. Both Dougherty and Brugner report to Craig Baker on the Asia Pacific region. Baker said it made sense to structure manager research along global lines. "This is an important stage of our ongoing ...

Nomura absorbs Lehman Bros Australia

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... Asia-Pacific. The deal is still subject to certain conditions but Nomura said all Lehman Brothers employees in the Asia Pacific region will be offered employment with the firm. This would include employees of Grange Securities, which Lehman Brothers ...

Korean fund administrator hires SmartStream

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
A prominent Korean fund administrator has signed on SmartStream Technologies' TLM Corporate Actions to improve its client services. Shinhan Aitas, a Korean fund administrator that provides various outsourced services to fund managers, will use TLM to ...

BNP Paribas wins six years with AMP

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... a two-way, win-win strategy for both firms. "We both have similar expansion aspirations in regards to the Asia Pacific region. In regards to our investment in Australia and AMP in particular, it was of the appropriate for both parties to ensure that ...