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Rest, NZ Super Fund top global rankings for best practices

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2025
... development goals. Rest, NZ Super Fund, and Temasek were the only funds to achieve a perfect score in the Asia Pacific region. Six others achieved the same feat across the Americas and EMEA regions. This was the largest number of perfect scorers to date. ...

UK watchdog to open Australian office

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... enter the UK market or raise capital and support UK firms looking to expanding into Australia or the broader Asia Pacific region. Blackburn is currently director of wholesale buyside at the FCA, a role she's held since 2022. Prior, she was global chief ...

Data centres 'major growth sector' for Australia: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2025
... $6.6 trillion (US$4 trillion) by 2030, at a compound annual growth rate of 18% over the next five years. The Asia Pacific region currently leads global data centre investment, capturing $25.8 billion (US$15.5 billion) last year, and accounting for up ...

Canada pension fund hires ex-CalPERS CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... US$486 billion of assets, recruited Meng from Franklin Templeton. At Franklin Templeton, Meng was chair of the Asia Pacific region, executive sponsor of sustainability, head of global private equity and led the China business. Meng joined from the California ...

Apex on local hiring spree

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
Apex Group is on track to achieve 20% annual organic sales growth over the next two years and plans to triple its headcount to 1000. After acquiring Iress' superannuation platform late last year, Apex's big opportunity is in member administration ...

Apex names country head and COO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2025
Apex Group has expanded its Australian leadership team with two key appointments following its agreement to buy Iress's superannuation business. Nick Bradford has been named country head for Australia with Chris Stevens taking on the role of chief ...

Monroe Capital sets up shop in Australia

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2025
... Monroe said Fu has more than 14 years' experience in capital raising, portfolio management and banking in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to Monroe, Fu was a director in the capital markets team at Hines Investment Management where he was responsible ...

BlackRock's Chantal Giles expands role

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... initiatives with the most strategic clients, focusing especially on global and cross-border clients in the Asia Pacific region, according to the company. Giles has been with BlackRock for 17 years. In her current role, she oversees the firm's relationships ...

Fidelity picks Southeast Asia lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2025
... business into its next growth phase. "Our Southeast Asia business represents a key growth opportunity within the Asia Pacific region, one where we have seen many innovative partnerships develop in the past couple of years. " Fidelity International has ...

CBRE bolsters leadership team

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... assumes a leading role in sourcing, diligence, closing and managing global infrastructure investments in the Asia Pacific region. He will work closely with our Client Solutions team raising capital and managing client relationships regionally," Dowd ...