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MetLife appoints KPMG super director

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... currently a director of superannuation advisory at KPMG Australia, providing advisory services to various superannuation funds, employer groups and regulatory bodies governing the wealth management industry. Prior to her role at KPMG, Tse was the general ...

Family office manager hires Discovery director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... boutique to shut last year. At least eight boutiques indicated intention to shut shop in 2019, including Denning Pryce, Sigma Funds Management and Mhor Asset Management while Melbourne long/short manager ARCO wound up its funds after being abandoned ...

Wealth giants shrink advertising budgets

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
Australia's largest superannuation funds and wealth companies have largely cut back on their advertising spends over the past five years, documents from the Standing Committee on Economics show. Colonial First State, which is currently facing two ...

Shareholder activism on the rise

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... activist targets for 2019 were AT&T (US) and SAP (Germany), both who faced off with one of the world's largest activist funds, Elliott Management. The research also found that activism against non-US targets accounted for 40% of campaigns for 2019 ...

Cbus head of advice launches firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... former head of advice of the $57 billion superannuation fund has launched a new consultancy firm aimed at working with super funds and dealer groups to develop better models of delivering advice. Greg Harper led Cbus's head of advice and retirement for ...

Whitehelm grows social infrastructure assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... manager acquired the Institute of Technical Education College West PPP Project in Singapore on behalf of industry super funds MTAA Super and Prime Super.

SGE extension could hurt small entities: FSC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... Profits Tax rules. However the AIC also remains concerned by the legislation, and said without amendments private equity funds and other investment entities would be discouraged from investing in Australian companies. This would be as a result of the ...

Revolution Asset Management launches second fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... 2018 by Bob Sahota, Simon Petris and David Saija. The boutique's capacity is over $4 billion. In addition to the two funds, it has a co-investor relationship with an overseas investor for about $250 million. Sahota was previously the head of fixed ...

J.P. Morgan wins custody mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... such as access to international markets for our managed discretionary accounts clients." The update said Xplore's group funds under administration grew 20.2% for the 31 December 2019 quarter against the comparable 2018 period to $15.89 Billion, with ...

Powerwrap finds new line of business

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... second-biggest client after Escala Partners and a new line of business for the platform. A US company that distributes alternative funds to financial advisers has mandated Powerwrap to provide its administration for about $2 billion to $4 billion in ...