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Orbis recruits investment specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... management professionals in Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. He began his career with the Allan Gray Group in South Africa in 2008 where he held product development, client relationship and investment specialist roles, before relocating to Australia ...

Sanlam Private Wealth breaches licensee obligations, hit with enforceable undertaking

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
Sanlam Private Wealth, the Australian arm of the South African Sanlam Group, has admitted to breaching licensee obligations by "failing to adequately supervise" its authorised representatives and corporate authorised representatives (CARs), following ...

TAL creates consumer and growth unit

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
TAL Australia has appointed a general manager to lead its newly created consumer and growth team. As head of this new division, Lexie Denby will oversee TAL's direct and advised customer growth initiatives while ensuring its products and services ...

Wellington client exec departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... Wellington, Davies worked as a senior asset consultant with MLC and an actuarial valuations manager at Southern Life in South Africa. As for King, he has spent 16 years at the firm and worked in the Sydney office in client service, transition management ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... outlets such as CNN and the LA Times report. "The [Obama] administration built secret drone bases and other facilities in Africa and the Middle East, and added troops and warships in the western Pacific. It also moved troops and equipment to eastern ...

IMF issues stark inflation warning for Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... weather events have led to downward revisions to the outlook for the Middle East and Central Asia and that for sub-Saharan Africa." The IMF prediction that in five years from now, global growth should reach 3.1% which it said was a "mediocre performance" ...

Jupiter AM awards distribution mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2024
... it grow internationally and bid for local insto money. Singapore-based Richard Hooper, who is the head of Middle East, Africa, and Australia at Jupiter, said this partnership with IDP is an important step for the company as it seeks to increase scale ...

EBC expands local offerings to HNWIs, instos

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... Founded in 2020, EBC has offices in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, the Cayman Islands, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and India. "With the new asset management licence, EBC Financial Group continues to solidify its global presence, offering ...

AustralianSuper pumps $2.2bn into US data centre

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... $2.5 billion deal with DigitalBridge Group to acquire a minority stake in Vantage Data Centers Europe, Middle East, and Africa (Vantage EMEA). The $2.2 billion allocated to DataBank will be used to expand DataBank's footprint. It marks the super fund's ...

Iress rejigs leadership team

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... Hoang. Since joining Iress in 2022, Rogers has held several senior leadership roles, most recently overseeing its South Africa and Canada divisions. Prior to joining Iress, he held senior leadership positions at MLC and National Australia Bank, including ...