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Credit Suisse appoints new Australia chief

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... John Knox has been appointed Credit Suisse Australia's new chief executive. Incumbent chief Rob Stewart will depart the company in June, having held the role since February 2013. He will be moving to a position at Global Infrastructure Partners. Knox ...

Hockey sounds tax alarm bells

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... lounge rooms." He argued that, as per the Discussion Paper, Australia was too heavily reliant on personal income tax and company income tax as a source of revenue - more so than any other OECD nation other than Denmark. He said it was particularly important ...

Go-it-alone investment culture taking hold in Europe

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... layers of distribution are being removed, Cerulli said. More than 82% of international asset managers surveyed by the company said the market share of direct-to-consumer D2C platform distribution in the United Kingdom will grow over the next five years. ...

ACSI names new chief executive

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... important work is conducted. She's determined to improve corporate governance in listed companies as well as encourage company boards and management to take more seriously their environmental and social impact," Noonan said. Davidson brings a long track ...

Invesco launches multi-asset targeted return fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... yielding world." The Invesco Global Targeted Returns strategy launched in the UK in September 2013 and is managed by from the company's base in Henley-on-Thames, UK. The team is led by David Millar, head of multi asset, who co-manages the strategy with ...

Statewide chief to depart

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
StatewideSuper chief executive John O'Flaherty will leave the company on 1 May. O'Flaherty held the role for five years, during which Statewide's financial planning arm was developed and its funds under management grew from $1.7 billion to $6 billion. ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... developed an interest in mathematics and statistics. She then decided to pursue an actuarial career and joined an insurance company that acted as a consulting actuary for South African pension funds. "The industry was quite male-dominated at the time. ...

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... the past year there were heavy losses for equities in key regions such as Brazil and Russia according to Legg Mason. The company said the MSCI EM Index fell almost 20% in the fourth quarter of 2014, and some individual regions were falling further still. ...

Vantage launches SMSF-ready private equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... year investment time frame. Investors will receive regular distributions as the fund receives them from the underlying company investments, with the bulk of the returns delivered as the underlying companies are sold after being held within the portfolio ...

Argo to launch infrastructure LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
Argo Investments plans to launch an ASX-listed infrastructure investment company. Argo Global Listed Infrastructure Limited will be actively managed by Cohen & Steers and will invest in a diversified global listed infrastructure securities and infrastructure ...