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Escala bought by growing US firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... terms of the deal were not disclosed. Focus has been on somewhat of a buying spree this month, having acquired Canadian firm Prime Quadrant on February 15 and Boston firm Foster Dykema Cabot the week before. Escala marks the fifth acquisition by Focus ...

Prime Value recruits former super fund chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Prime Value Asset Management recruited former Christian Super chief executive Peter Murphy to its client services team as a strategic adviser. The appointment is off the back of the boutique fund manager expanding its institutional arm via several alternative ...

Treasury initiates review post RC

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
... Department of Families and Social Services will lead the review, in consultation with Treasury and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. "The review is also set to benefit drought-affected communities, with senior representatives from the ...

Wealth manager appoints former NSW Premier to chair foundation

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2019
... currently serves as an adviser to the director general at the Executive Office of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and ruler of Dubai. In a statement Carr noted the foundation's efforts in helping migrants ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... industrial sector shrank, while the service sector had been "substantially stable". Not so, says Italy's newly-elected prime minister, Giuseppe Conte. It's because of external factors - mainly, the Sino-US trade spat and Brexit - stupid! Still ...

Wealth group acquires asset manager stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... Were Asset Management. Ferres will join Aura's wealth management investment committee. Thomas was previously a director of prime services for APAC at Barclays and worked at UBS and Merrill Lynch. In May 2017, Chris Faddy joined Aura from Vantage Point ...

No-deal Brexit sparks mixed reaction: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... financial services sector is grappling with the effects the upcoming Brexit deal will have on the industry. On the back of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's historic defeat of her proposed exit strategy from the EU last week, respondents were divided ...

Kelly O'Dwyer to leave parliament

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... Revenue and Financial Services from July 2016 until August 2018, when the portfolio was dropped after Scott Morrison took the Prime Ministership. Her time as the minister responsible for financial services culminated in the Royal Commission hearings ...

Investors rage coup against Aurora

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... Canberra on Tuesday, the fund's investors voted to replace Aurora Funds Management as the responsible entity and to appoint Prime Securities in the role, also passing a constitution change. However, Aurora says the meeting did not give unitholders the ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Brexit uncertainty remains in the headlines ( dis-United Kingdom prime minister Theresa May survived the vote of no confidence immediately called after the crushing defeat of her proposed Brexit deal in the House of Commons); so is the US government ...