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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 ...

Primewest accepts merger offer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2021
... estate managers on the ASX. The Primewest founding directors John Bond, David Schwartz and Jim Litis have accepted the takeover bid and merger proposal. Securityholders that represent 76% of Primewest securities have also informed Centuria of their acceptance. ...

Frontier hires people and culture lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021
... with previous experience at AXA, EY and Grant Thornton is Frontier's new head of people and culture. The asset consultant has bid farewell to Margie Hill, who was responsible for people and culture for three years. In doing so, it has appointed Nicole ...

Fund administrator eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2021
A Singapore-based fund administrator will establish full-service operations in Australia as it sees an opportunity in the local market. Ascent Fund Services currently services about US$7 billion in assets. This includes 150 products across six Asia ...

Vanguard appoints fund administrator

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... launch later this year. On April 28, a consortium including Pacific Equity Partners and Carlyle Group withdrew their October 12 bid to acquire Link. Link is currently in the process of listing property settlement platform PEXA. Vanguard managed about ...

PEXA to IPO in June

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
... offers materially undervalued the business. "In October 2020, the Link Group board considered the private equity consortium's bid for Link Group, including its interest in PEXA, significantly undervalued Link Group's business including the PEXA asset," ...

Pengana Capital distribution executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
Pengana Capital has bid farewell to the executive leading the international fund's distribution efforts, exiting not long after two portfolio managers left in March. Joy Yacoub was the executive director of business strategy and distribution, a ...

UniSuper names next chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... base faces challenges from bans on arrivals of international students. Earlier this month, UniSuper went public offer in a bid to retain scale. However, O'Sullivan said he expects the fund's growth rate to be lower than previous years, at a panel ...

UBS, Nomura cop fines over bond cartel

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
UBS, Nomura and UniCredit were fined a total of $585 million by the European Commission for cartel conduct in government bond trading during the GFC. EC says the three investment banks breached antitrust rules through the participation of a group of ...

SS&C hits back for Mainstream

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
The bidding war for Mainstream is in full swing after SS&C has come back with a superior offer following a bid from Apex Group. SS&C has exercised its matching right and increased its offer to $2.66 cash per Mainstream share. The revised offer comes ...