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Finalists announced in 2023 MAX Awards

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2023
... across 23 categories including Distribution Team of the Year, with Charter Hall, Janus Henderson Investors, La Trobe Financial, MFS Investment Management and T. Rowe Price up for nomination. Other categories include Agency Executive of the Year, Community ...

Former Octaviar director sees charges dropped

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2023
... citing his ill health. Anderson had been facing 27 charges of fraud, including allegations that he defrauded a subsidiary of MFS, later called Octaviar, of $4.8 million. He was formally charged with 26 counts in June 2019 before an additional charge ...

Perpetual takeover of Pendal progresses

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2022
... quarter. Perpetual Digital attracted two new clients in the quarter, with a new mandate form a large auto lender as well as MFS and Laminar combining to win a large wealth management mandate. Perpetual Private total funds under advice (FUA) were $17.2 ...

MFS names global fixed income investment chiefs

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
MFS is growing its fixed income department's leadership team with the addition of two co-chief investment officers. MFS director of fixed income, Europe Pilar Gomez-Bravo and fixed income portfolio manager Alexander Mackey will join current chief investment ...

AustralianSuper to grow external mandates, hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... October 2021, the fund has external mandates with the likes of Alphinity, AXA Investment Managers, Dimensional, IFM Investors, MFS International, Perpetual, UBS and Vanguard. Wahba added that there is an ongoing need to appoint managers that complement ...

MFS recruits BNP Paribas executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
The former head of wholesale distribution at BNP Paribas Asset Management has taken on a similar role at MFS Investment Management. James Langlands is now head of wholesale, Australia and New Zealand for MFS. He replaces Ross Cartwright who relocated ...

Disgraced former fund manager chief declared bankrupt

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 DEC 2021
The former chief executive of MFS Group - later known as Octaviar - has been declared bankrupt after he failed to pay a penalty to ASIC of $300,000. The Federal Court made the order against Michael Christodoulou King based on the unpaid penalty even ...

Sustainability will send some broke: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
Efforts to become more sustainable will challenge many firms and perhaps even bankrupt some, experts from MFS Investment Management have noted. In a new research note, MFS global investment strategist Robert Almeida and research analyst Robert Wilson ...

Aussies less confident about retirement age

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... age compared to their global counterparts, a new study shows. The latest Global Defined Contribution Participant Survey by MFS Investment Management of 4000 respondents found that only 71% of Aussies are confident about retiring at the right time, lagging ...

MFS Investment Management launches new trust

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2021
... fund manager has opened a multisector, small and mid-market-cap equity trust to Australian and New Zealand investors. The MFS Global New Discovery Trust aims to generate alpha by selectively investing in high-quality companies within a $1 billion to ...