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Northern Trust appoints sales lead for asset servicing

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... who plans to retire. Based in London, Gee currently leads sales teams across Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Essentially, the promotion will see him add business development responsibilities for the Americas to his remit. The new sales ...

Mercer snaps up Northern Trust AM exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... Before her latest stint at Mercer beginning in 2019, Morgan held various positions at Alexander Forbes Investments in South Africa for 11 years. She finished up as head of institutional sales, driving the growth strategy for the investment business across ...

Saxo Australia to rebrand after global takeover

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2025. Currently, more than 160 wealth managers and advisers across Africa, Europe and the UK use DMA to access global markets under a single platform. The sale also comes after Saxo Bank announced ...

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 ...