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ASI appoints new APAC chief

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) has announced a new chief executive to lead the Asia Pacific region. Rene Buehlmann has been named chief executive of APAC, effective 1 March 2021. Buehlmann will succeed Hugh Young, who is taking on a new role as ...

Future Super cuts fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 DEC 2020
Future Super has gifted its members a fee cut for the holidays, with fees set to reduce over all of the ethical super fund's investment options. The admin fee on the fund's Balanced Index option is reducing from 0.65% per annum to 0.554% per ...

Chief economist update: Fed acts with inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... 56.5 (56.7 in November). Two-month low. Flash US Manufacturing Output Index at 57.3 (59.2 in November). Two-month low. US growth momentum has slowed however, given the latest readings from the Markit Economics PMI survey, the economy is still expanding. ...

New chief for global fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
A US$354 billion global investment manager has named its new chief executive and chair, who assumed the post this month. Mike Freno took over from Tom Finke at Barings, who has served in this role since 2016 and led the institution through its integration. ...

AMP Capital launches infra debt strategy

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
AMP Capital has launched a new infrastructure debt strategy, set to help investors capitalise on emerging growth opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. The Infrastructure Debt Asia Pacific strategy will target infrastructure mezzanine debt opportunities ...

Iress appointed mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... infrastructure to support its expansion into international funds. Lincoln Indicators expanded its offering and launched a US growth fund in July and sought an end-to-end trading solution for managing international orders and executions. The managed fund ...

Funds services firm expands offerings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
A boutique administration services firm is expanding its back-office offering to include trustee, custody and escrow services. Intertrust Group has secured an AFSL that will enable it to provide additional fund services to asset managers, institutional ...

Franklin Templeton announces revised APAC team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
Franklin Templeton has revealed its new head of Asia Pacific (APAC), including India, as well as an updated distribution team within the region as it completes its acquisition of Legg Mason. Vivek Kudva has been appointed head of APAC and will be responsible ...

Schroders director jumps to Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
An investment director in Schroders local business is moving to Robeco, as the latter adds two others to its Asia Pacific team. Rupeng Chen worked on Schroders' global and emerging market quantitative equity products across Asia Pacific, based out of ...

Platform bolsters distribution, relationships teams

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
An asset manager and platform with ambitious growth plans has made key appointments, growing its relationships and distribution teams. Mason Stevens has appointed Charlie Green, a former financial adviser at Kearney Group, to manage client relationships ...