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Easton to acquire $1.7bn advice group

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
Listed wealth firm Easton Investments is in talks to acquire a financial planning network with $1.7 billion in funds under advice. GPS Wealth, established in 2012, operates 82 practices with 123 advisers and 182 accountants throughout Australia. According ...

Westpac GM becomes PNG wealth group CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
Westpac's former general manager for South East Asia Pacific is now the chief executive of an ASX-listed Papa New Guinean bank and wealth management firm. Greg Pawson's appointment as Kina Securities' chief executive was announced as part of Kina's ...

ESG mispriced by markets: CFSGAM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
The value of responsible investment is being mispriced by markets due to short-termism and other barriers, according to Colonial First State Global Asset Management research. CFSGAM undertook a survey of all staff worldwide to determine their perspectives ...

Link Group makes $1.5bn UK acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
Link Group is expanding into the UK and Europe with the acquisition of an asset servicing business for $1.5 billion. Under the terms of a binding agreement, Link Group will acquire Capita Asset Services (CAS) from Capita plc, funded partially by cash ...

The challenge of finding true active management

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
Active management has a critical role to play in the current global economic environment - but it pays to know what you're getting out of it. Speaking at a T. Rowe Price investment briefing in Sydney, national sales manager Darren Hall noted that it's ...

JB Financial enters buyout mode

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
JB Financial Group is on an acquisition drive with three flagged purchases and a raft of new hires. The first, Risk & Security Management (RSM), has already been completed, adding 68 employees to JB Financial's staff. Consideration for the RSM acquisition ...

Family offices partner for major US acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
Australian and US sophisticated investors partnered to acquire a suite of large-scale multifamily real estate assets in the US. The Domus Multifamily Real Estate Fund (Domus), along with Los Angeles-based Geringer Capital and Australian private wealth ...

Macquarie team joins Shaw and Partners

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
Shaw and Partners is bringing over a team of seven from Macquarie Private Wealth to manage a new Canberra office. Stephen Johnson will lead the new Canberra team along with fellow Macquarie veterans Rod Sutherland, Tom Kenyon, Penny Ponder, Neil Robertson ...

ANZ appoints chief underwriter

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
ANZ Wealth has appointed a chief underwriter for OnePath Life Insurance. Peter Tilocca was appointed as acting chief underwriter following John Leonard's retirement in March, having previously been group underwriting and operations manager and senior ...

Auscap equities fund gets Zenith, Lonsec tick

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
An Auscap Australian equities fund was given a "Recommended" rating by both Zenith and Lonsec. The Auscap Long Short Australian Equities Fund targets value-driven long and short positions in Australian equities. It has returned 24% per annum net of ...