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Boutique fund manager chief retires

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
A $14 billion Melbourne equities boutique is looking for a new chief executive as the incumbent retires. Steve Schubert retired as Cooper Investors' chief executive in December. He first joined the boutique in May 2015 as its chief operating officer ...

AXA acquires largest student housing portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2019
... (€2.8 billion) student housing portfolio of over 25,000 student beds across six countries. Kumar Kalyanakumar, head of Australia at AXA IM, said: "The Urbanest portfolio represents a rare and high quality opportunity to grow our recently established ...

Calastone wins mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... information, eliminating the need for copious emails, PDFs, faxes and manual portals that drag efficiency," Calastone head of Australia and New Zealand Ross Fox said. "With OneVue joining other leading registries in advocating electronic reporting, the ...

Aberdeen appoints head of Australian fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
Aberdeen Standard Investments has promoted internally to appoint a head of Australian fixed income, after the team lost two experienced investors in September. Garreth Innes is moving into the Sydney-based role after eight years on the team. He reports ...

Global group adds to local leadership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019
... Financial Standard it is bringing its savings and investments business to Australia, to be led by Alex Francois as head of Australia and New Zealand business development, financial solutions. He will be responsible for the market exploration and regional ...

Magellan hires Macquarie insto head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
The global equities powerhouse has hired Macquarie's head of Australian institutional business for its 25-strong sales and distribution team. Darren Ottawa joined Magellan last month as an institutional business director. He will be responsible ...

Robeco launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... environments, making it a suitable addition to Zurich's diversified funds including the Managed Growth Fund." Robeco head of Australia Stephen Dennis said: "This strategy brings together Robeco's strengths in sustainability and factor investing - in ...

First State Super enters global equities partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... a broader relationship-focused solution rather than simply a product solution." HSBC Global Asset Management head of Australia Geoffrey Pidgeon said the manager is thrilled that First State Super has entrusted us with such a significant partnership. ...

Major funds expand with Singapore investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... to source, execute and close competitive transactions in Asia," said Saji Anantakrishnan, Whitehelm Capital's head of Australia and Asia. "Whitehelm continues to seek high quality, operating, core infrastructure projects in the region. This investment ...

First Sentier launches funds, picks new RE

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
First Sentier Investors has launched its inaugural batch of funds and has chosen a new responsible entity, after completing the sale from CBA. The firm will use Perpetual's The Trust Company as its new responsible entity for the first time with ...