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PIMCO selects new head of local business

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
... to the head of Asia-Pacific Alec Kersman. In this role, Watkins will work closely with PIMCO Australia head and co-head of APAC portfolio management Rob Mead as well as with PIMCO head of institutional account management Eric Frerer. Watkins will also ...

UBS promotes local real estate head

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2022
... real estate at UBS Asset Management, is taking on a regional leadership role. UBS has promoted Mowat to head of real estate, APAC. He will also retain his responsibilities as the local real estate lead. Having joined the firm in 2010, Mowat has worked ...

Pallas Capital adds key distribution role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2022
... team, looking after high-net-worth investors, family offices and institutional investors, both in Australia and the broader APAC region.

Citi welcomes eight new hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2022
... Zealand. He previously worked for Citi between 2007 and 2014 but was most recently at Credit Suisse, leading Japan Prime and APAC securities lending. Will Buttigieg will join the equity trading team in July. He has spent the last 17 years at UBS in a ...

Modern Slavery Act needs strengthening: Panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2022
... modern slavery is not improving and is most likely getting worse, said Jeff Bond, senior director, sustainability consulting (APAC), Elevate. Bond noted that Elevate conducts investigations on the ground in various markets to gain a grounded view on ...

Australians are crypto-curious but not committing

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2022
... adoption rate is similar to western nations like the US and the UK, the country lags in terms of adoption in comparison to other APAC countries surveyed, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and India. Perhaps the trepidation stems from the legal ...

Australia more worried about inflation: Nuveen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022
... regions, but also highlighted areas in which Australian investors hold differing views. One such area is inflation, with 84% of APAC public/government plans and 73% of Australian institutional investors saying they are actively looking to mitigate inflation ...

abrdn establishes Sustainability Group, promotes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
... Effective April 1, Asia Pacific ESG investment director Danielle Welsh-Rose has been appointed to head of sustainability APAC and head of sustainability specialists. "Danielle will lead the group responsible for ensuring that abrdn's client proposition ...

Popularity soars for managed accounts

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2022
... clients, up from 44% in 2021. State Street Global Advisors head of SPDR ETFs Australia and model portfolios for EMEA and APAC Kathleen Gallagher said outsourcing some aspects of investment management can help free up advisers to spend more time with ...

Northern Trust creates new APAC quant team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
Northern Trust has established a new team of quantitative specialists for Asia Pacific, to be led out of Melbourne. Scott Bennett has been appointed as head of quantitative investment solutions, Asia Pacific, and will lead the new quant team. Bennett ...