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Colonial First State hires PE head, farewells sales exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Colonial First State has hired a local investment director from a global pension fund to run private equity and unlisted assets. At the same time, its head of investment sales has exited. The wealth and superannuation giant confirmed that Chloé Brayne ...

Mercer names investment solutions lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... managed funds research business at ASSIRT, where she developed the first retail alternative asset class product rating in the local marketplace. Jacques is a former general manager of the Australian Goals Based Advice Association, an investment research ...

Schroders launches high yield credit strategy

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
Schroders is providing retail investors with access to the local wholesale high yielding credit universe via a new fund. The Schroder Australian High Yielding Credit Fund, which has been an allocation within Schroders fixed income and multi-asset strategies ...

Acadian, Yarra among most commonly used external managers by super funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
... dispersion on a fund-by-fund level and no clear trend by fund size. It said this is despite larger funds now dominating local asset classes, where they're likelier to face capacity constraints. The report added although many larger funds continue to ...

Global X launches latest global equity ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2024
... total market, with majority of the assets invested in quality and yield factors, Global X said. The company believes the local ETF market is on track to hit $1 trillion by 2030, and GARP will contribute to that. "As ETFs are increasingly used to gain ...

ART, Perennial back debt collection fintech

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 24 SEP 2024
A local fintech, backed by Australian Retirement Trust and Perennial Partners, has completed a $60 million capital raise. InDebted, a fintech that provides 'personal' debt collection services underpinned by artificial intelligence and machine learning ...

GAM Investments loses local lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
Alex Zaika, the local head of GAM Investments, has resigned from his role at the Switzerland-based asset manager to join another firm. It is understood that the global asset manager is currently searching for Zaika's replacement. Zaika, who joined ...

Robeco specialist poached by Northern Trust

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
A senior member of Robeco's local quant team has quit the Dutch asset manager to join a former colleague at Northern Trust Asset Management. Jan Rohof - the firm's technical quant investment specialist based in Sydney - is joining former Robecco ...

Robeco appoints APAC sales lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... Flemings Save and Prosper. At Fidelity, Hanson was replaced by Simon Glazier who was most recently leading Fidelity's local wholesale business. He has previously held positions at Ellerston Capital, Colonial First State, Perpetual, and ING.

Dimensional hires institutional sales lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2024
... firm Dimensional Fund Advisors has appointed a new institutional sales lead. Gemma Bjarnason's appointment raises the local distribution team to six. Bjarnason is tasked with further developing the institutional business and working with its clients ...