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Wealth fintech strengthens leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
A digital advice provider has appointed a Midwinter general manager to lead a growing and global distribution network. Joining Ignition Wealth as head of sales is Helen Thom. She was most recently Midwinter's general manager of distribution. Formerly ...

Hastings rebrands following sale

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018
An infrastructure asset management firm formerly owned by Westpac has rebranded after its recent sale. Hastings Funds Management will now be known as Vantage Infrastructure, after new owner Northill Capital repositioned the brand to reflect its new ...

Link Fund Solutions chief to depart

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
The chief executive of Link Fund Solutions has resigned to take on a new role with a $133 billion fund administrator. Andy Harrison has been appointed as the new chief executive of Mainstream Fund Services, Australia. Taking on the role in October ...

Commonwealth Bank appoints new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
Commonwealth Bank has named Ian Narev's successor. Effective 9 April 2018, Matt Comyn will be the new chief executive at the banking and wealth management group. Currently heading CBA's retail bank, he will replace Narev who announced his retirement ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
The release of the minutes of the Fed's and the ECB's June meetings have brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is ...

Queensland DB super liabilities tipped to fall 18pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2017
Queensland's public sector superannuation liability is expected to fall $7 billion over the next five years, and this is despite the state's defined benefit scheme surplus being partially repatriated. The figures were published in the Queensland Government ...

Global manager acquires Australian tech firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
An $81 billion international investment manager took the majority stake in a large Australian provider of specialist medical software. IFM Investors, via its private equity business, acquired Genie Solutions, a software business established in 1995 ...

Macquarie buys UK investment bank for $4bn

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
A Macquarie-led consortium will acquire a UK investment bank for £2.3 billion ($3.9 billion) and merge it with its existing UK infrastructure business. Macquarie, along with the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), purchased the Green Investment ...

BTIM builds out multi-asset team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
BT Investment Management is launching a new US-based multi-asset investment strategy and appointing a former managing director at JANA Partners to head it up. Giorgio Caputo will join BTIM subsidiary J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) in April, and ...

Soul Pattinson pockets Hunter Hall via Pengana merger

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
After NAB sold its significant stake in Pengana Capital to Washington H. Soul Pattinson earlier this week, Pengana and Hunter Hall are set to merge, bringing the future of Hunter Hall's current investment team into question. Assuming shareholder approval ...