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New chair at Platinum Asset Management

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
Platinum has appointed a new chair as Michael Cole gets ready to retire after 13 years in the position. The firm also announced the departure of Kerr Neilson from the investment team. Cole will retire both as a non-executive director and the chair on ...

Chief economist update: Forecasting is futile

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... industries declined by 17-19pts. Confidence is now weakest in retail and construction," it reads. Confidence fell on the east coast - driven by sharp declines in NSW and VIC and a more modest decline in QLD. Confidence is now negative in all states except ...

Global manager launches China A-shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... was even higher at 22.6% relative to benchmark's -1.4%. Ninety One head of institutional for Asia Pacific and Middle East Justin Cowper said the fund will have a small to mid-cap bias, as it looks to hone in on opportunities usually missed by other ...

AFP charges early release scammers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... superannuation payments totalling $113,500. As part of the investigation, search warrants were served at five addresses in South East Queensland in Morayfield, Worongary, Balmoral, Eagleby and Burpengary East. A number of electronic devices were seized ...

Perpetual opens retail raise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2020
... a formidable platform to scale our business internationally." Barrow Hanley's 21 strategies cover US, Europe and Far East global and emerging market equities and US fixed income. The total FUM is split as 60% US equities, 15% global equities and ...

Another sentenced in ATO fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
A man has been sentenced to over seven years in jail for his role as principal conspirator in a syndicate alleged to have defrauded the Commonwealth of more than $105 million over three years. Simon Anquetil pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to ...

Franklin Templeton announces revised APAC team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... role as country head of Malaysia. Dora Seow will take on an expanded role as country head of Singapore and the broader South East Asia region (ex-Malaysia and Vietnam). Richard Surrency will continue his role as head of alternative sales, Asia. Kudva ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism laws late last year at the bank, some relating to child sex abuses in South-East Asia. The breaches saw heads roll at Westpac, including that of its former chief executive Brian Hartzer and chair Lindsay ...

Perpetual takes stake in US asset manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... infrastructure and unlisted assets such as private market debt. Barrow Hanley's 21 strategies cover US, Europe and Far East global and emerging market equities and US fixed income. The total FUM is split as 60% US equities, 15% global equities and ...

12 charged in $17m fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... people. Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigators executed search warrants at 10 locations across Sydney, nine in south-east Queensland and two in the ACT in a "coordinated strike" against a transnational and serious organised criminal syndicate. ...