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Water risk infiltrates agriculture portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... ploughed more than $1 billion to the sector since 2007. Tim Lee, a partner of the food and agribusiness advisory division at PwC, says water volatility and accessibility to required volumes are posing risks not only to producers, but to supply chains ...

PwC urges super trustees to fast-track GDPR compliance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2018
... General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regime must fast-track the necessary steps to comply with new, stringent privacy laws, PwC warns. Taking effect on 25 May 2018, GDPR applies to any business established in the EU and Australian businesses (including ...

Asset managers gearing for growth in 2018

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... industries are confident about growth prospects in 2018 but remain realistic about responding to intense fee pressures, a PwC global survey shows. The majority (87%) of the 126 asset and wealth management chief executives are gearing up for growth prospects ...

Former UniSuper investment analyst joins AustralianSuper

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... FactSet, an economic statistician at Statistics New Zealand and a senior research at Rothschild. He has also held roles at PwC, BlackRock and Statistics New Zealand. As reported yesterday, AustralianSuper - along with Australian Ethical, First State ...

More than half fail CFA exam

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... by NAB (95), Macquarie Group (81) and Westpac (72) and ANZ (49) based on 2017 data. AMP Limited, Citigroup, UBS, KPMG and PwC rounded the top 10 employers that highly regard CFA qualified candidates. In terms of job function, portfolio managers (20%) ...

SMSF industry hails ATO appointment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... working closely with major industry and retail super funds as well as boutique managed funds. She has also previously worked for PwC in London. SMSF Association chief executive John Maroney said the ATO's appointment of Fleming is to be lauded. "Her ...

EQT names manager for major philanthropy client

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... that, she was director partnerships and investment at Children's Ground and corporate responsibility manager at PwC Australia. "I've been lucky to have worked with some of the cleverest people in the social impact sector over the past 15 years and am ...

Aussie equities boutique appoints portfolio manager from Schroders

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... manager focused on European equities. Before that, he was an equity research analyst at Citi and a senior consultant with PwC. In his new role, Twidale will develop a new investment strategy focused on emerging companies. "We are looking to complement ...

Avenir recruits Platinum analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... where she was a credit investment analyst specialising in leveraged loans and high yield bonds. Prior to that, she worked in PwC's Spanish corporate finance and debt advisory team. Warner said at the time: "Having Patricia working with the team to generate ...

UBS tops Australasian adviser tables for mergers and acquisitions

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... the Australasian advisory league tables with 45 (US$10.8bn). This was followed by Macquarie Group (35 deals, US$28bn) and PwC (30 deals, US$1.1bn). Mergermarket said APAC outbound mergers and acquisitions dropped sharply by 54.1% during the period, while ...