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AustralianSuper names chief platforms officer

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 15 DEC 2025
... currently a member of the ASIC cybersecurity consultative panel. Backeberg brings over 30 years of experience across South Africa and Australia, including a five-year stint at EY as director of FSO technology advisory. Commenting, AustralianSuper chief ...

PPS Mutual appoints new chair

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2025
... across the financial services sector, academia and industry bodies. Asher has had senior roles with Prudential in South Africa, APRA, and Deloitte's Australia office. He also has longstanding commitments to the Actuaries Institute and a significant tenure ...

Fortitude Investment Partners expands team

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2025
... has made a string of appointments this month, including an investor services manager who had worked at Allan Gray (South Africa) for more than a decade. Akyere Sobukwe-Whyte has been appointed as investor services manager, bringing her 15 years experience ...

Ninety One strengthens multi-asset bench with senior hire

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025
... Investments, where he spent more than three decades managing fixed income and multi-asset portfolios across the UK and South Africa. Knee, who will take up the role at the end of 2025, was most recently co-deputy investment chief for fixed income at ...

ART promotes high-profile retirement specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2025
... EDHEC-Risk Institute in France. Moreover, he has extensive experience as a pension and employee benefits consultant in South Africa, where he worked for Alexander Forbes Financial Services for 13 years. Alexander Forbes is South Africa's largest ...

Mercer snaps up Northern Trust AM exec

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2025
... Before her latest stint at Mercer beginning in 2019, Morgan held various positions at Alexander Forbes Investments in South Africa for 11 years. She finished up as head of institutional sales, driving the growth strategy for the investment business across ...

Orbis recruits investment specialist

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... management professionals in Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. He began his career with the Allan Gray Group in South Africa in 2008 where he held product development, client relationship and investment specialist roles, before relocating to Australia ...

Sanlam Private Wealth breaches licensee obligations, hit with enforceable undertaking

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 6 JAN 2025
Sanlam Private Wealth, the Australian arm of the South African Sanlam Group, has admitted to breaching licensee obligations by "failing to adequately supervise" its authorised representatives and corporate authorised representatives (CARs), following ...

TAL creates consumer and growth unit

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
TAL Australia has appointed a general manager to lead its newly created consumer and growth team. As head of this new division, Lexie Denby will oversee TAL's direct and advised customer growth initiatives while ensuring its products and services ...

Wellington client exec departs

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... Wellington, Davies worked as a senior asset consultant with MLC and an actuarial valuations manager at Southern Life in South Africa. As for King, he has spent 16 years at the firm and worked in the Sydney office in client service, transition management ...
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