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Platinum AM appoints independent director

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... Beijing offices of that firm and as a senior lawyer he managed legal work of significant projects in capital markets and mergers including some of the largest transactions in Australia. "We welcome Stephen because his legal background will complement ...

PM Capital CEO leaves, replacement announced

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... Rismark. Before that, he worked in the United States and Australia for Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory. At PM Capital he will be responsible for implementing and contributing ...

Advice M&A activity set to soar in 2015

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Advice business mergers and acquisitions are set to reach unprecedented levels in 2015 thanks to regulatory certainty and an increasing demand for independent financial advice. "The shackles of poor investment markets and legislative uncertainty have ...

JPMorgan appoints investment banking vice chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... banking Grant Dempsey. Simon Ranson left Citigroup in July, where he had worked for 10 years, most recently as head of mergers and acquisitions, and head of real estate investment banking. He has over two decades of industry experience and has also held ...

Insurers grow market share at cost of profits

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... market share growth can largely be explained by ongoing aggregation of superannuation funds. "For example, super fund mergers announced over the past 12 months include Sunsuper and Chifley FuturePlus, while PrimeSuper and HIP merged, as did Tasplan and ...

Pengana Capital appoints Singapore director

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2015
... Pengana Asia Special Events Fund. The fund invests in listed equities in the Asia Pacific region that are going through mergers and acquisitions, capital management initiatives, earnings upgrades/downgrades and capital structure arbitrage. Huston has ...

Investec appoints managing director, corporate advisory

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
... positions at Credit Suisse, ABN Amro Australia and most recently boutique investment firm Aquasia, Ezzy will advise on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing and the development of corporate strategy. "Malcolm's strong background in advising ...

Super fund mergers could risk member attrition

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015
Most super fund members would not like their fund to go through any merger activity, according to the CoreData 2014 Member Growth Report. The report asked the question to 858 super fund members and 65.6% said they would not like their fund to merge ...

Australian Unity acquires Premium Wealth

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... difficulties of vertical integration in a post-FoFA landscape, saying, "[It] became clear we would need to either engage in mergers and acquisitions of our own, or invite a like-minded organisation to partner with us." Together, Australian Unity and ...

Elixir Consulting partners with Evolve Leadership

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... will assist in business strategy for practices who want to take the business to the next level, so we're talking about mergers and acquisitions, for example." Elixir has recently added Derek Gerrard and Glenn Bergsma and will appoint someone based in ...