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BNP Paribas wins China custody agreement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
BNP Paribas will now be able to support institutional investors from Australia and elsewhere investing in China's equities and bonds markets, under a new custody agreement. BNP Paribas today announced it has been granted a licence to provide custody ...

MSC Group hires three

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2021
The Melbourne-based trustee company has made three senior appointments, including a new chief operating officer. Hayden Williams has joined MSC in the role from Sandhurt Trustees where he was the head of corporate trustee. He joins after Susan Wolff ...

Perpetual adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
Perpetual has appointed the managing director of US-based private equity firm K6 Investments as a non-executive director. Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan founded K6 Investments in 2011 after seven years as chief executive and president of Proctor Investment Managers. ...

Family law super reforms released

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
The government has released the long-awaited exposure draft legislation intended to prevent individuals from hiding superannuation assets in family law proceedings. The exposure draft legislation will use information held by the Australian Taxation ...

New Martin Gilbert vehicle strikes first deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
AssetCo, the new investment vehicle for the former co-chief executive of Aberdeen Standard, has made its first acquisition under its new business strategy. Martin Gilbert bought into AssetCo in January this year and joined as chair, alongside fellow ...

Suncorp divests super unit to industry fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
Suncorp will divest its wealth division to an industry fund, transferring $6.4 billion in assets under management and 137,000 members. LGIAsuper will pay $45 million for the acquisition of Suncorp Portfolio Services and will retain about 130 staff that ...

Chief economist: Of capital gains taxes, COVID-19 and climate change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
It's bad news day on Wall Street overnight with all four its benchmark equity market indices flashing red. The S&P 500, the DJIA and the Nasdaq dropped by 0.9% each, while the Russell 2000 had a smaller decline of 0.3%. The financial literati were ...

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Some move the goalposts when they can't hit the target, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison did one better and all but abandoned his government's vaccine roll-out target. Taking to Facebook, Morrison announced on April 10 that: "The government ...

Adamantem invests in carbon farming

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
Adamantem Capital has taken a majority stake in a carbon farming project developer which works to regenerate farmed land. Adamantem has joined Climate Friendly as a majority stake investor, supporting the business' growth and aim to tackle the climate ...

IOOF firms abandon ship

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
Four IOOF financial advice firms have joined Count Financial ahead of the MLC acquisition, with one firm saying it was seeking a licensee without "hidden agendas". Magnis Financial Planning, Glenbuckie, Aim Financial Advice and Strategic Wealth Management ...