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Iress hires former dealer group chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
Iress has hired the former chief executive of Financial Services Partners at IOOF to a newly created senior role. Geoff Kellett has stepped into the position of head of commercial operations, a newly created role at Iress. He departed IOOF at the end ...

AMP chair faces shareholder ire

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
AMP chair Deborah Hazelton has dodged heavy-hitting questions from shareholders who demanded transparency on the firm's failure to reign in chaotic leadership changes and why they are the last to know about significant announcements. Shareholders ...

Westpac settles life insurance class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
Westpac has settled a class action relating to life insurance sold through its financial advice network. The class action was brought against Westpac Group by Shine Lawyers in 2017. It claimed that between 2011 and 2017, customers who received financial ...

Raiz acquires superannuation platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
ASX-listed Raiz will pay $9.5 million to acquire a firm with a $70 million Choice superannuation fund. Raiz is set to buy Superestate, whose business includes superannuation, a residential property fund, and a property data platform. Under the deal ...

Primewest, BlackRock enter JV

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
Following its merger plans with Centuria Capital, Primewest has formed a joint venture with a fund advised by BlackRock Real Assets and has made headway on acquiring its first property. The joint venture has exchanged contracts to acquire an office ...

AMP Capital real estate distribution head departs

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
Tim Nation was in the role for over two years and worked closely on the origination and management of transactions in AMP's real estate platform across office, logistics and retail. Prior to this, he was AMP Capital's head of institutional business ...

Pahari to leave AMP amid demerger

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
AMP has confirmed Boe Pahari will leave the business as it pursues a demerger of its Private Markets business, after plans to sell to Ares Management fell through. AMP will demerge its $50 billion Private Markets business from AMP Limited and list it ...

Perennial establishes ESG boutique

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
Perennial Partners has spun its ESG team and flagship ESG fund into a separate boutique investment business. Perennial Better Future will include the Perennial Better Future Trust and the associated active ETF, the eInvest Better Future Fund (IMPQ) ...

MSCI launches life sciences indices

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
MSCI is launching a set of indices that target megatrends and innovation in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The partnership with Nasdaq-listed Royalty Pharma will measure the performance of companies focused on delivering new and innovative ...

Koda Capital adds director

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2021
Koda Capital has appointed a new non-executive director. Koda Capital chief of staff and partner Quentin Reeve confirmed Anna Schibrowski has been appointed as a non-executive director. Schibrowski was previously the chief transformation officer for ...