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Legalsuper awards global equities mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
Legalsuper, the $3.1 billion super fund for Australia's legal community, awarded a global equities mandate to a boutique firm in Florida. GQG Partners was launched in June 2016 as a subsidiary of Pacific Current Group, and manages $4.5 billion in assets ...

MLC Life creates four adviser engagement roles

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
MLC Life Insurance, the insurer established after NAB sold its life insurance arm to Nippon Life, has created four new business engagement manager roles. The managers will join MLC Life Insurance's retail business from May 1 and will focus on assisting ...

AMP Capital appoints insto business head

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
AMP Capital has appointed a new head of its institutional and corporate business. Tim Nation joined AMP Capital 2010, and was most recently head of real estate capital. Before that, he was acting fund manager for AMP Capital's Wholesale Office Fund. ...

Value set for comeback: Nikko AM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
Value investing is set for a comeback after two years of underperformance - but only for managers willing to put in the hard yards. Nikko Asset Management portfolio manager and senior analyst Jason Kim explained in a recent investor update that the ...

AustralianSuper appoints former Macquarie executive

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
AustralianSuper appointed a new chair for its investment committee. Jim Craig, who has been on the committee since last year, also sits on the boards of Lifestyle Communities, IC Advisory, River Capital, Unified Healthcare Group, Australian United Investments ...

ANZ sells off retail Vietnam business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
ANZ entered into an agreement to sell its Vietnamese retail business to an NYSE-listed South Korean group. Shinhan Bank Vietnam, owned by Shinhan Financial Group, will become the new owner of ANZ's retail presence while the latter focuses on its institutional ...

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 ...

Republic Capital chief executive departs

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
Republic Capital's chief executive left the company after four months in the position. Joining in September 2016, and having been chief executive of Resource Super for three years, Tim Baker left Republic Capital in January this year. He has previously ...

Investment group takes majority stake in global advice firm

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
An investment consortium will acquire a majority stake in international advice network Focus Financial, which recently acquired a Brisbane advice firm with MW Lomax and has expressed further plans for its Australian expansion. In the past, Focus has ...