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ASFA chief joins Irish software provider

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
The chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has joined a Dublin-based provider of software to the life insurance sector. FINEOS announced Martin Fahy will join its board as non-executive director. Currently chief executive ...

Mercer names senior investment consultant

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
... level for Mercer funds. He brings international experience having recently worked as a senior investment manager at the Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), Ireland's sovereign wealth fund. Its chief market strategist Dave Stuart will retire on ...

Ignition lifts off in Ireland

HARRISON WORLEY AND MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... its customer interactions through a single advice platform, adding Life Advice would have a transformational impact on the Irish market. Ignition chief executive Manish Prasad said clearing the significant compliance and regulatory hurdles required to ...

Mercer creates portfolio management lead role

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... level for Mercer funds. He brings international experience having recently worked as a senior investment manager at the Irish Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), Ireland's sovereign wealth fund. He previously held portfolio management roles at Pioneer ...

Aussies second-most optimistic about retirement: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... a relatively large lump sum into a dependable income for life, making the definition of sufficiency elusive. Italian and Irish respondents, in particular, were concerned that they were not prepared for retirement." According to numbers, Australia has ...

NRMA chair links with asset manager

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2018
... the time, Platinum chief executive Kerr Neilson said the appointment of AccessAlpha complemented Platinum's launch of Irish domiciled UCITS funds. "The huge shift taking place in terms of both economic and political influence plays strongly to Platinum's ...

Fossil fuelled Ireland to divest for climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... fossil fuels. On July 12 lawmakers in the nation's Dail Eireann - the lower house of parliament - passed a bill requiring the Irish government to sell off any interests in coal, oil, gas and peat held via its $14 billion sovereign development fund, the ...

Equity Trustees appoints US executive, partners in Ireland

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... US-based Australian executive enter an international role; the second will see it partner with an administrator to launching an Irish fund platform. In a bid to ease American fund managers' access to markets in Australia and Europe, former Westpac ...

Fidelity to launch active ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... ETFs in Australia," she said. "It won't just be Australia. It is on the public record that Hong Kong, Singapore and the Irish Central Bank are interested in the space. You shouldn't only be able to access active fund managers through platforms or your ...

Antipodes expands investment team, creates active ETF

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... well as three new investment team members. It is also establishing its second active exchange-traded product and launching Irish-domiciled UCITS funds for its three investment strategies. Speaking to Financial Standard, newly-appointed managing director ...