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Macquarie Asset Management buys Veolia waste business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
French utility company Veolia has agreed to sell its Suez's UK waste business to Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) for $3.5 billion. MAM will acquire 100% of the share capital of Suez Recycling and Recovery UK Group. Veolia has been selling off parts ...

Pinnacle acquires third-party distributor

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
... Direct Lending, Realside, Monash Investor's and Coolabah's Smarter Money Investments. In the past it has worked with French quant manager CFM. The Winston acquisition follows Pinnacle's decision to spend roughly $32 million on increasing ...

Natixis hires sustainable investing lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... global economy." Wallace was most recently head of ESG strategy and development at Mirova's US branch. She served as s French foreign trade adviser from 2014 to 2020 and is a member of the CFA Institute's ESG technical committee. Natixis is targeting ...

ASIC removes Societe Generale restrictions

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
The corporate regulator has removed AFS licence conditions imposed on the French bank after it breached client money obligations. As per the licence conditions, Societe Generale appointed an independent expert to assess and test the adequacy and effectiveness ...

Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
"Boom boom boom boom!" - Vengaboys The Australian property market should adopt this as its official anthem. The property craze in this Land Down Under is best portrayed by an article in the Daily Telegraph telling the story about "a mouldy 1970s house ...

Robeco launches credit income fund in Australia

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... Spanish banks Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Banco De Sabadell and Bankia, Irish banks AIB Group and Bank of Ireland and French insurance company La Mondiale. "Investors are in a unique position to direct capital to companies that provide solutions ...

CFM fund to wind up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
The French quant manager is shutting an Australian fund, after returns slipped into negative territory and fund size stagnates. The CFM Institutional Systematic Diversified used a multi-strategy quantitative approach to target positive returns over ...

Societe Generale fined over client breaches

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020
The French bank's Sydney operation has become the second company in Australia in as many months to be criminally prosecuted over breaching client money obligations. Societe Generale pleaded guilty to four counts of client money obligation breaches in ...

Chief economist update: Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... Heartbreak Ridge The coronavirus pandemic has been likened to a war. US president Trump called it "the invisible enemy", French head of state Macron declared that France was "at war", India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, compared it to Mahabharata ...

Chief economist update: Comeback COVID

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... Chancellor Merkel this week called on Europe to act with coordination to take targeted measures. Her stance was echoed by French President Macron," Factset said. Just as "Freddy's" first coming and the social restrictions and lockdowns that followed ...