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Private equity firm closes $558m mining fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... holdings include Pembroke Resources, a Sydney-based company pursuing and developing metallurgical coal projects in Asia Pacific and Auctus Minerals, a Perth-based company developing base metals assets throughout Australia. "The close of our first mining ...

AMP sales director retires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... institution's sales team. Barry Wyatt left AMP in May, having served as sales director since the merger of AMP and AXA Asia Pacific in 2011. He was responsible for the distribution of AMP's insurance, wealth management and banking products to financial ...

Aviva Investors appoints Asia institutional sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2018
... north and southeast Asia. Clapham will report to Scott Callander, who is Aviva Investors head of client solutions, Asia Pacific and Middle East. "[Clapham] has an outstanding track record and an in-depth understanding of institutional needs across the ...

MLC Life recruits head of underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... enhance the newly-launched underwriting platform for the benefit of advisers and customers. Jones joined HSBC Insurance Asia Pacific in 2013 as its head of life underwriting and operations based in Hong Kong. He was promoted to chief underwriting officer ...

VanEck ETF receives ethical tick

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... organisms. High carbon emitters are also excluded from the investment universe. VanEck managing director and head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said: "We believe demand for investing in sustainable, transparent investment products will continue to rise ...

SSGA appoints APAC managing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... Jonathan Shead has worked in various SSGA roles since 2000; he was most recently head of portfolio solutions for the Asia Pacific region.

Aussie fund manager drops fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... change and additional expenses incurred. The $36.3 million K2 Asian Fund invests in listed equities throughout the Asia Pacific region ex Japan. It generated a 5.8% return over 10 years and 8.5% in the year to 31 May 2018. In May 2017, K2 announced it ...

Equal weight portfolios outperform: VanEck

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... exposure to these smaller stocks than market capitalisation weighting does," VanEck managing director and head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said. VanEck's reason: the distribution of individual stock returns is not the normal distribution that most ...

Record number of Australians seek CFA qualification

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... have registered for Level I, II and III exams this year across the globe. More than half of this number is from the Asia Pacific region. In the March results, more than half the test takers failed, Financial Standard reported.

Quantifeed eyes Australian expansion with $13.5m raising

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... Financial Holdings, with participation from US-based asset manager Legg Mason, and will go towards Australia and Asia Pacific growth. "We will be growing the Australian team over the next six to 12 months and also open an office [on an undisclosed timeline]," ...