Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Executive Appointments

Sign up FS Industry Moves

BlackRock to drop 500 staff

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
About 500 BlackRock staff will be laid off in the coming weeks, the investment house has confirmed.

Global iShares lead promoted, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
The global head of BlackRock iShares and index investments has been promoted.

IRESS lead moves to Chi-X

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Chi-X has snapped up the IRESS head of institutional and online trading services as it builds its team.

Macquarie names digital infra head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Macquarie Capital appointed a new managing director to head up its investments in the growing digital infrastructure industry.

Hiring continues but wage growth under pressure

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
The Royal Commission inquiry and the state of the property market has not dampened the financial services sector's positive hiring intentions over the next three months, recruitment firm ManpowerGroup says, but there are challenges.

Andrew Hagger to lead investment, philanthropy group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Former NAB executive Andrew Hagger is appointed as chief executive of Minderoo Group, a charitable foundation and investment business owned by mining magnate Andrew Forrest and wife Nicola.

KPMG hires legal services partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
KPMG's Australian legal advisory business has hired a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to work with financial services companies.

Count Financial seeks new GM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
The general manager of Commonwealth Bank-owned dealer group Count Financial has resigned.

Blue Sky appoints CFO

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Blue Sky Alternative Investments is still searching for a chief executive and a chief risk officer, but it begins 2019 with a new chief financial officer as it reboots its executive lineup.

JPMAM global fixed income CIO exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's international chief investment officer of global fixed income, currency and commodities (GFICC) group has departed after nine years.