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ASIC flags stronger adviser surveillance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
About $618.8 million was paid in compensating and remediating corporate misconduct in the six months to June - almost a fourfold increase on the second half of 2016. During the period, ASIC removed 23 individuals from working in financial service; commenced ...

JPMAM wins global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has won a substantial global equities mandate from a New Zealand wealth management firm. Describing the mandate from Gareth Morgan Investments as one of the largest separate accounts within the group's Global Research ...

Fixed income manager opens Australian office

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
A European fixed income and active management specialist has opened an Australian office. BlueBay Asset Management appointed Ciaran McAssey to head its new Melbourne office. He has worked at the firm for more than five years and is currently head of ...

Liquidnet promotes Australian leader, names successor

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
Liquidnet's former head of Australia, Tristan Baldwin, recently relocated to Hong Kong following his promotion as regional head of sales for Asia-Pacific. Joining the global institutional trading platform as its new head of Australia is Murrough O'Brien. ...

Executives must think beyond the technical

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
... leaders' time and efforts - it has been quite a struggle to stay on top of technical skills. Lang advised leaders should be close enough to the technical, but not to get lost in the details - an important balance to try and get right. Executives do need ...

Australian Ethical boosts adviser arm

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2017
Australian Ethical is growing its adviser channel with the appointment of two senior roles. Quyen Dam and Joanne Robb will be part of the client relationships team led by Leah Waldie who was appointed as head of client relationships in March. Dam is ...

US$4.1 billion infrastructure debt fundraising secured

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2017
AMP Capital has reached final close on its Infrastructure Debt Fund III, completing one of the largest fundraisings in the world for an infrastructure debt strategy. The investment manager raised US$2.5 billion for the Debt Fund III (IDF III), an additional ...

IRESS eyes future earning potential following reduced profit

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... data and analytics provider INET BFA. IRESS has also deployed its technology to the Commonwealth Bank, Statewide Super, and Close Brothers Asset Management. Fund administrator MainstreamBPO announced its intention to acquire a portion of IRESS' superannuation ...

Fidelity hires new director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2017
... a year managing a portfolio of major banking and wealth clients, Mathie worked in executive roles at Macquarie Group for close to nine years. He joined Macquarie Group in 2007 as an associate director and national key account manager, and then became ...

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... benchmark, for one, and so many funds have gotten so big that they have to own the big stocks." (LGM's fund has a planned soft close at $10 billion.) After selecting the appropriate emerging economies, Vester said the goal was to focus on "domestic companies ...