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Wealth group acquires asset manager stake

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... 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 Asset Management ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services names APAC lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
BNP Paribas appointed a new Asia Pacific lead for BNP Paribas Securities Services. Mostapha Tahiri will succeed Philippe Benoit as the head of the Asia Pacific business effective February 1. Tahiri will report to Jose Placido, global head of client ...

Willis Re refreshes executive lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... Re team in Australia will strengthen our operations in the Australian market to drive our next phase of growth." Willis Re APAC head Mark Morley said: "Both John and Karl will also be part of the regional team and be involved in various initiatives to ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... good news either," the authors wrote. Matthew Arnold, State Street Global Advisors head of ETF strategy and research for APAC said an inverted yield curve has proven to be a decent predictor of recessions, although there have been cases where the curve ...

BlackRock appoints regional head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... role. BlackRock's current head of corporate strategy and senior managing director Geraldine Buckingham is taking on the APAC head and chair role. She replaces current APAC chair and senior managing director Ryan Stork who will now be the company's ...

Aussie companies drop dividends

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2018
... Australian payouts rose just 1.3% as compared to the total 6.8% for Asia Pacific. Australia's lackluster performance dragged APAC' s headline growth down by 8.8% alongside Hong Kong. Globally, dividends rose 5.1% to a total of US $354.2 billion ($484.1bn) ...

Morningstar IM appoints regional chief investment officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... for Asia Pacific. Matt Watcher will start in the role in late January 2019, based out of Sydney. He takes over from current APAC chief investment officer Andrew Lil, who is moving to serve as the CIO for Americas in a Chicago-based role. Watcher will ...

TH Real Estate launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... investors. It will buy office, retail, industrial and residential assets across 17 cities in Asia Pacific. The TH Real Estate APAC Cities Fund is targeting a long-term return of 7-10% per annum. The manager is aiming to raise $2.8 billion over a five-year ...

Cybercrime protection inadequate: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... NTT Security's Global Threat Intelligence Report showed a staggering 66% per cent of attacks on the financial sector in APAC originated from Australia. Ransomware is the cybercriminals' weapon of choice, the report said, adding that incidents ...

Bravura live on NZ bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... will continue innovating the products and services that we offer our customers." Bravura Solutions chief operating officer APAC Jon Alder said: "We are delighted with the success of the Sonata launch at ASB. Bravura and ASB have collaborated as a cohesive ...