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Sydney boutique to buy a slice of Investec assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... Investec said it would withdraw from the Australian market after 23 years to focus on core markets of the UK and South Africa. It employed 98 staff. The corporate advisory business will be spun out as a successor entity owned by the senior leadership ...

Boutique manager hires from Talaria

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... as a project manager for interest rate, foreign exchange and credit derivatives products and worked at Deloitte in South Africa and Chicago. Alphinity principal and chief executive Johan Carlberg said Jonker is a welcome addition to the team. "Her role ...

NEOS shakes up leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... MLC Life Insurance as the head of profitability and performance reporting for over a year. He spent most of his career at South Africa's largest life insurer Sanlam and was the chief actuary for their retail insurance business. During his time at ...

UK drags Bravura performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021
... operations, professional services work has declined thanks to COVID-19 and uncertainty in the market continues. Meanwhile, South Africa has been significantly impacted by the pandemic and has prompted Bravura to implement tighter cost control. "Furthermore ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
... scheme of macro things, nothing has changed. The worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. Sure, there's the UK and South African variant outbreak - considered to be more highly infectious - but then again, there's now also the vaccine (slowly ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore is hot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... This, along with the still disrupted supply chains in still highly infected iron ore exporters - namely, Brazil and South Africa - augurs well for iron ore prices going forward. This would be a godsend for Australia, in terms of economic growth and the ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... the dying days of 2020. All looked swell... until the coronavirus variant that was first spotted in the UK and in South Africa. It's reportedly less deadly but more infectious and has already triggered renewed lockdowns in Europe and Asia and the ...

WTW appoints Australia segment head

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... it bought Risk Capital Advisors (RCA), a specialist mergers and acquisitions broker in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. WTW is the third-largest asset consultant by assets in not-for-profit superannuation funds as at 30 June 2020, according ...

Senior appointments at HLB Mann Judd

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2020
... advice and experience in the field." Wirtz has 20 years' experience in professional services throughout Australia, South Africa, Brazil, China and Japan. His remit will be the provision of tax consulting services to Australian-based companies, ranging ...

Investec to close Aussie business

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2020
... performance of the Australian business or employees, but a "strategic exit" to focus on its core markets of UK and South Africa. It will exit Australia over the coming 18 months, and 98 staff in total will be impacted. Investec has reached an agreement ...