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Pendal appoints head of institutional

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2022
Pendal has confirmed the appointment of Peter Lambos as its new head of institutional business, Australia and New Zealand. A spokesperson for Pendal confirmed Lambos has been promoted to lead the institutional business, reporting to head of distribution ...

Generation Life launches retirement income product

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2022
Generation Life has launched a new lifetime income solution on GBST's cloud-based wealth administration platform, Composer. The solution, Generation Life LifeIncome, will be available exclusively through financial advisers and is an investment-linked ...

Chalmers sworn in as treasurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
Australia's new treasurer has been sworn in this morning following Labor's victory in the federal election. The weekend's result also sees the departure of Jane Hume as minister for financial services, superannuation, and the digital economy. Treasury ...

Risk asset volatility guaranteed: Western Asset

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Geopolitical developments and central bank tightening have made risk asset volatility a surety this year, according to Franklin Templeton's specialised investment managers Western Asset. However, Western Asset has said that despite geopolitical turbulence ...

Alternatives guru departs ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Bruce Tomlinson has left his job as a senior portfolio manager at the Australian Retirement Trust. For nearly 15 years, Tomlinson headed up alternative strategies at Sunsuper which recently merged with QSuper to create a $230 billion megafund. Before ...

Tesla axed from the S&P 500 ESG index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
Tesla has been booted from the S&P 500 ESG index due to its low S&P Dow Jones Indices (DJI) ESG score. In an S&P DJI ideology blog, North American head of ESG indices Margaret Dorn said that Tesla had fallen into the bottom 25% of its industry group ...

Remembering Steve Williams

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022
ClearBridge Investments has led tributes to its head of intermediary sales Steve Williams, who passed away last week following a short illness. Williams - affectionately known as Willo - passed away last Thursday, ClearBridge confirmed in a LinkedIn ...

Advice firms struggle to make most of socials

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2022
A recent survey by BT found just 37% of financial advisers have received referrals via social media in the last 12 months. Earlier this year BT conducted a three-part webinar series on social media, with the majority of advisers in attendance using ...

Rest bolsters operational risk oversight

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2022
After almost 14 years at Deloitte, Jason Foo has joined Rest's investment team to help run operational risk. The industry fund confirmed that Foo was appointed senior manager, operational risk, and compliance, investment management. Foo was a director ...

Macquarie Group posts record earnings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2022
Macquarie Group has posted a $A4.7 billion net profit for the year ended 31 March 2022, up 56% from the prior year. This strong result was carried by impressive performances across all the companies operating groups. Items within the banking group that ...