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Andrew Boal departs Willis Towers Watson

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... since taking on the corporate risk role in March 2018, he said. Weaver was previously regional chief executive of South-East Asia for WTW and is a former chief executive of the firm's Singapore office. The executive said he is excited to lead the Australasian ...

Raiz expands offshore

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
Raiz Invest received the green light to distribute products across south-east Asia. The ASX-listed firm announced it secured a licence to distribute mutual funds via subsidiary PT Raiz Invest Indonesia. Managing director George Lucas said Raiz has progressed ...

Family office invests in absolute return fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... and capital funding and commercial loans to high-net-worth (HNW) executives, professionals and entrepreneurs in south-east Asia. It is an independent financial advisory company and was incorporated this year. The investment takes the fund's assets under ...

AMP names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2018
... speculation. Francesco De Ferrari will take the helm from 1 December 2018. He was most recently chief executive, South East Asia and Frontier Markets at Credit Suisse, as well as head of private banking APAC. De Ferrari will succeed acting chief executive ...

Aviva Investors appoints Asia institutional sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
Aviva Investors, the $654 billion asset management arm of the global Aviva group, has tapped in a former Macquarie and Mercer senior executive to lead its Asian institutional sales. Tom Clapham is now Aviva Investors' head of institutional sales ...

Acorns rebrands, issues prospectus

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
... Lucas said the funds will be used to support growth in Australia, launch new features and products and expand in South-East Asia. Lucas added: "Raiz has improved financial literacy, financial inclusion and broadened capital market participation in Australia ...

Aussie regtech readies firms for MiFID II

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2017
... compliance in time for the looming MiFID II deadline. APIR Systems will be the LSE's registered agent in Australia and South East Asia to support the issuance and maintenance of legal entity identifiers (LEI), which of late has become a more complex ...

Pension fund consortium acquires renewable energy portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2017
... renewable energy developer in the key OECD growth markets of Australia and Japan, as well as across India and South East Asia. Equis Energy chair David Russell said: "The investment by GIP and its partners is exciting news for the development of renewable ...

Westpac chair joins boutique manager board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... RAKBANK. He was the chief executive of Aviva Australia from March 2003, prior to becoming Aviva managing director for South East Asia based in Singapore in 2010. Griffiths said: "MCP is a unique business, with a highly experienced investment management ...

Grant Thornton bolsters dedication to retail clients via merger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... profit optimisation capability to some of the largest retailers and consumer products companies in Australia and south-east Asia and has grown its revenues by more than 120% in the last two years. Grant Thornton Australia chief executive Greg Keith said ...