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Global X recruits key executives

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... Australia, with Wolak taking on Cliff Man's role as portfolio management. David Tuckwell's product, strategy, and research role has been filled by Marc Jocum, who was elevated to senior product and investment strategist and Billy Leung to senior ...

Super moves: QIC, VFMC, ESSSuper, Aware Super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... quant strategies across global markets. Xu arrived from Frontier Advisers, where she was promoted to the new quantitative research consultant within the capital markets and asset allocation team, just 12 months ago. The quant has focused on macroeconomic ...

Activist fund manager promotes three staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... Before joining Wilson AM, he served as a global equity portfolio manager at Wilson's advisory arm and was a credit research analyst at UBS Asset Management. Milne, the second investment professional to get a title bump, works with Wilson's leaders ...

Australia tops list for financial services job growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... job vacancies, led by the financial services sector in March, according to the Robert Walters Global Jobs Index. The research found that professional white-collar vacancies in financial services in Australia jumped by 34% compared to February 2025, marking ...

Life insurance premiums edge lower

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... billion in the year to December 2024 - a $300 million decline from the previous year - according to DEXX&R. The market research firm's latest Life Analysis report showed total new individual risk premiums dropped 18.5% over the year, falling to $1.11 ...

Future Fund muscles past annual target return, lags in March quarter

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... outcome has cracked open the prospect of a "dramatic redefinition" of the Future Fund's role and purpose, according to research platform Global SWF. Global SWF said that for nearly two decades, the Future Fund operated under a commercial-first mandate ...

Wealth managers' recovery looks promising: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... accumulation/super with a retirement income solution. As a more focused wealth and bank operator, AMP is now starting to deliver, the research said, thanks to platforms seeing some inflows, super outflows improving, margin pressure easing and the development ...

Super moves: Cbus, ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
Funds SA deputy chief investment officer and director of equities has jumped to Cbus Super, the industry fund for building and construction workers. After seven years with the $46 billion investment corporation owned by the government of South Australia ...

Global X China Tech ETF in the works

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... DRGN), the firm said the country's years of strategic investment in manufacturing capacity, digital infrastructure and research capabilities are now translating into "operational scale" across multiple sectors. Global X noted that in semiconductors ...

Clime awarded $183m mandate from US firm

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... entered into a heads of agreement with Dallas-based US equities manager Acruence Capital to strengthen both entities' research capabilities and collaborate on opportunities in the US market. The agreement with Acruence is expected to increase investment ...