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Showing 361 - 370 of 2012 results for "WIS"

Charter Hall co-founder eyes Australian Unity Office Fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2022
Aliro Group has made a bid to acquire the Australian Unity Office Fund, with support from the fund's largest shareholder. On Friday afternoon, Australian Unity received an all-cash proposal to acquire all the issued units in its Office Fund (AOF) by ...

ETFS Capital, WisdomTree in cooperation deal

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2022
Graham Tuckwell's ETFS Capital entered a cooperation agreement with WisdomTree, alongside Lion Point, to enhance WisdomTree's board of directors and corporate governance. Under the agreement, former State Street Global Advisors chief investment officer ...

Citi names new head of securities services

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
Citi Australia has appointed Mark England as the new head of securities services following the retirement of long serving executive Martin Carpenter. England, the current co-head of sales for Citi Securities will relocate from Hong Kong to Australia ...

Alternatives guru departs ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Bruce Tomlinson has left his job as a senior portfolio manager at the Australian Retirement Trust. For nearly 15 years, Tomlinson headed up alternative strategies at Sunsuper which recently merged with QSuper to create a $230 billion megafund. Before ...

Equip adds to executive team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
The chief member officer at Equip has left after four years, with the fund appointing an interim replacement as it also welcomes another addition to its C-suite. Tania Cumming left the $32 billion super fund last month, vacating the position of chief ...

Government proposes further expansion of downsizer scheme

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2022
The Morrison government has said it will expand the downsizer superannuation scheme by reducing the minimum eligibility age if re-elected this weekend. At present, the downsizer superannuation scheme is only available to those aged 65 years and over. ...

NZ Super Fund hires from ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2022
Australian Retirement Trust has confirmed that Kevin Wong is leaving the $230 billion super fund to join NZ Super Fund. Wong who has served as the portfolio manager for dynamic asset allocation will join the Kiwi sovereign wealth fund as a senior investment ...

Schroders private wealth sales lead in new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2022
The head of private wealth sales at Schroders Australia has departed, taking up a new role with an ASX-listed alternatives manager. After 11 years with the company, Chris Boyd has departed Schroders where he led private wealth sales since August 2021. ...

TWUSUPER chair retires after two decades

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2022
The longstanding chair of the $6.5 billion industry fund has stood down, with Nick Sherry appointed to the role. Effective this month, Sherry will lead TWUSUPER's board, drawing on his experience as Australia's first minister for superannuation between ...

UBS Australia could be banned from Papua New Guinea

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2022
Investment banking giant UBS could be banned from Papua New Guinea and forced to repay tens of millions as a Royal Commission uncovers questionable conduct. A Royal Commission will shortly deliver its verdict in PNG after examining a 2014 decision by ...