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Bitcoin fund hires from IFM

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
Monochrome Asset Management has appointed Derek Vladimir Henningsen, as head of legal and compliance. He was most recently at IFM Investors as head of fund and mandate compliance. Henningsen has also worked at Bell Asset Management, the Australian Financial ...

Bennelong launches emerging markets strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021
A Bennelong Funds Management affiliate is launching its emerging markets fund to Australian investors. The Skerryvore Global Emerging Markets All-Cap Equity Fund aims to generate absolute long-term returns by investing responsibly in emerging markets. ...

Investment Trends adds to team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
The research house has hired an associate director, focused on the direct wealth space. Kurt Mayell joined Investment Trends on August 2. Mayell will lead a team of analysts focused on providing actionable market insights, competitive intelligence ...

MSCI acquires Real Capital Analytics

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
MSCI will pay US$950 million cash to acquire data and analytics company Real Capital Analytics. MSCI said the logic behind the acquisition was grounded in a desire to expand its data solutions - especially in real estate. Real Capital Analytics provides ...

News Corp grows Dow Jones with acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
News Corp is expanding Dow Jones by entering into an agreement to acquire the Oil Price Information Service (OPIS) from S&P Global and IHS Markit. OPIS will fold into Dow Jones' Professional Information Business (PIB) which includes Dow Jones Risk & ...

Future Fund appoints portfolio strategy lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2021
The $179 billion sovereign wealth fund has promoted internally to appoint a deputy chief investment officer for portfolio strategy. Ben Samild was named to the role, which was left vacant in December 2020 after Sue Brake moved to Future Fund's chief ...

FYG launches advice delivery platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2021
Boutique financial advice group FYG Planners has rolled out a new platform to improve the advice delivery process and increase client engagement. FYG Planners partnered with LivePreso to launch WealthEye, an advice delivery portal. LivePreso's platform ...

Institutional Shareholder Services to acquire Rainmaker Information

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
... further - both domestically and across the region - as well as to accelerate the delivery of new research, analytics and insight capabilities to our clients." As part of ISS MI, Rainmaker will benefit from new capabilities, consistent with the group's ...

Frontier partners with due diligence platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
Frontier has enlisted the help of a global technology platform to help automate the diligence processes. DiligenceVault will enable the asset consultant to collect and centralise asset manager and fund data. The solution is a two-sided platform used ...

Westpac appoints director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021
Westpac has named a renowned philanthropist as its latest non-executive director. Audette Exel is the chair and founder of international non-government organisation Adara Group. The group's focus is on improving health and education for women, children ...