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Luxury fashion house sued over Birkin bag sales

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... action which alleges it only allows customers with "sufficient purchase history" to buy the infamous Birkin handbags. The French luxury fashion house is being sued in California in a case that claims sales associated are pushing customers to buy other ...

Global fund managers welcome chief executives

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... has become the new global chief executive of Natixis, succeeding Tim Ryan who wishes to pursue a career outside of the French firm. Setbon brings over 30 years of experience in financial services to the role and has spent the last four years as chief ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... menopause, or at least its symptoms, came from Aristotle in the fourth century BC, however it wasn't until 1831 that a French physician coined the term. If you think about how long this took, it's not difficult to understand why it's also ...

Macquarie Asset Management buys Veolia waste business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2022
French utility company Veolia has agreed to sell its Suez's UK waste business to Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) for $3.5 billion. MAM will acquire 100% of the share capital of Suez Recycling and Recovery UK Group. Veolia has been selling off parts ...

Pinnacle acquires third-party distributor

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021
... Direct Lending, Realside, Monash Investor's and Coolabah's Smarter Money Investments. In the past it has worked with French quant manager CFM. The Winston acquisition follows Pinnacle's decision to spend roughly $32 million on increasing ...

Natixis hires sustainable investing lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2021
... global economy." Wallace was most recently head of ESG strategy and development at Mirova's US branch. She served as s French foreign trade adviser from 2014 to 2020 and is a member of the CFA Institute's ESG technical committee. Natixis is targeting ...

ASIC removes Societe Generale restrictions

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2021
The corporate regulator has removed AFS licence conditions imposed on the French bank after it breached client money obligations. As per the licence conditions, Societe Generale appointed an independent expert to assess and test the adequacy and effectiveness ...

Chief economist update: Home sweet home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
"Boom boom boom boom!" - Vengaboys The Australian property market should adopt this as its official anthem. The property craze in this Land Down Under is best portrayed by an article in the Daily Telegraph telling the story about "a mouldy 1970s house ...

Robeco launches credit income fund in Australia

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
... Spanish banks Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Banco De Sabadell and Bankia, Irish banks AIB Group and Bank of Ireland and French insurance company La Mondiale. "Investors are in a unique position to direct capital to companies that provide solutions ...

CFM fund to wind up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
The French quant manager is shutting an Australian fund, after returns slipped into negative territory and fund size stagnates. The CFM Institutional Systematic Diversified used a multi-strategy quantitative approach to target positive returns over ...
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