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Perpetual appoints general manager, distribution

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2019
... to joining Perpetual. His current role at Franklin Templeton is regional head of institutional and retail sales for South East Asia and co-chief executive of Templeton Asset Management Limited. Quaife has over 25 years' experience in the industry, mostly ...

Statewide still keen on mergers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2019
All options are on the table at Statewide Super, including looking at potential retail fund partners, but three-way mergers are too much execution risk, according to chief financial and operating officer Grant Eastwood. Statewide canned plans to merge ...

Adviser cops 262 month jail sentence

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
A financial adviser in the US will spend the next 22 years in prison after he defrauded his own family out of millions. Treyton Lee Thomas has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for wire fraud and 60 months for tax evasion to run concurrently, as ...

Chief economist update: Foolish takeaway on US-China talks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
... October tete-a-tete would end the same way as its precedents. For as Rudyard Kipling, in his Barrack-room ballads (1892): "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Especially not when Trump and Xi are holding a contest on who ...

BNY Mellon adds to Melbourne team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... A$-denominated bonds and local companies such as CSL and Transurban. Mistry worked at Citi in corporate trust sales in the Middle East and North Africa region, before returning to Australia. He was most recently at Melbourne-based C2 Capital as its head ...

Northern Trust hires from State Street

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... responsibilities across APAC while at State Street. He will now work with Northern Trust's clients across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Northern Trust is the sixth-largest custodian in Australia, with an 11.5% share of Australia's ...

Super fund invests in disability housing

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... disability housing estimated to be worth $6 billion. The funding will help build 25 disability homes in New South Wales, South East Queensland and Victoria. The impact fund will receive equity in the properties in return. DPN Casa Capace, a registered ...

HSBC chief abruptly resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... roles across the group included group treasurer; deputy head of global markets and head of global markets, Europe, Middle East and Africa. At one point, he was chief executive of HSBC global asset management; chief of staff to the group chief executive ...

Platform provider divests advice firm

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
An ASX-listed platform provider has sold its 50% equity holding in a Queensland-based financial planning practice. Xplore Wealth has divested its holding in McGregor Wealth Management, signing an agreement to transfer its shareholding back to an entity ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... economy in aggregate. Even before the trade tensions began, many corporations were relocating manufacturing operations to South East Asia as China became less cheap to do business. The trade tensions have only accelerated this process, Treves said.