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Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
Scott Morrison will be Australia's next Prime Minister, after he beat Peter Dutton 45-40 in a Liberal Party leadership ballot. The ASX 200 jumped on the news, after trending downwards since Monday. It hit its highest at 1.05pm, when it was up 0.33% ...

Global fund manager replaces COO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
A US fund manager with a distribution alliance in Australia announced its chief operating officer and co-founder is retiring with a replacement taking over immediately. After 14 years as president and COO at Epoch Investment Partners, Timothy T. Taussig ...

Janus Henderson names sole chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
Janus Henderson is dumping its dual leadership structure, with Andrew Formica resigning as co-chief executive. The ASX-listed, London-based funds management giant has announced the appointment of Dick Weil as sole chief executive of the firm. As a result ...

SMAs leading growth at Praemium

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
Praemium's separately managed accounts business is leading the pack among its offerings, raking in 47% higher revenues in the first half of FY18 as compared to H1 FY17. Collectively the company's product offerings brought in revenue of $21.5 ...

Praemium chief executive returns to board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018
Michael Ohanessian has been appointed to Praemium's board. A year since Ohanessian was re-instated as chief executive of the platform provider, he has been appointed as managing director on Praemium's board, returning after a much publicised ...

QIC expands executive team, bolsters US footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
QIC has made several executive appointments locally and overseas in an effort to expand its US footprint and client base. Brian Delaney, who was executive director of strategy, clients and global markets, stepped into the newly created role of senior ...

HESTA wins big at AIST awards

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2017
Industry super fund HESTA scooped the pool at last nights' 10th annual AIST Awards for Excellence in Melbourne last night. The fund took home three awards, including the award for Best Internal Communication Campaign for their "Eight Great Mates" campaign ...

First Super appoints board member

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
First Super recently appointed a Djab Wurrung elder and indigenous leader as an independent director to its board. Joining the $2.6 billion fund's board from September is Tim Chatfield. He is currently the chief executive of a successful Aboriginal ...

Vale John O'Connell

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
John O'Connell, founder and chief investment officer of the Macquarie Group-owned robo-advice venture Owners Advisory, has passed away at the age of 53. O'Connell had a long and distinguished career at Macquarie, starting as a senior analyst in the ...

Iron magnate makes historic $400m pledge

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2017
The Australian chair of one of the world's largest iron ore producers recently made the largest ever donation by a living Australian to a range of charitable causes. Fortescue Metals chair Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest, along with his wife Nicola, donated ...