| | | A prominent face of the Australia proxy advice industry has signaled his departure after ISS Australian operations co-founder Dean Paatsch announced that he is leaving the governance advisory firm after six years. |
| | | | Following the purchase of a majority holding in asset consultant CPG Research and Advisory earlier this year by Sigma Alpha International Limited (SAIL), CPG principals John Parrish, Peter Williamson and Philip Chow will be leaving the business. |
| | | | Challenger's launch of an Australian small companies fund, its tenth boutique, inadvertently resulted in an ING small cap fund being placed 'on hold' yesterday. |
| | | | AMP Capital Investors has appointed senior portfolio manager Sonia Baillie, formerly from Nomura, to the fixed income team as incumbent Andrew Lally joins the Australian equities team. |
| | | | Mark Folpp, former head of retail distribution at Investors Mutual, joins Grant Samuel Funds Management to help build the group's retail presence in NSW, ACT and Queensland. |
| | | | OC Funds Management has appointed Peter Purpura, former managing director of Fisher Graham Financial, as its head of retail distribution, who will head a more aggressive distribution strategy for the firm. |
| | | | BlackRock Australia has announced key recruitments this week, appointing a former CFO at AMP Capital as the new COO and leading governance expert Pru Bennett leaving Regnan to become the group's head of corporate governance. |
| | | | AXA Investment Managers has appointed Mercer global chief investment officer, Tim Gardener, as global head of consultant relations. |
| | | | The insurance industry is hiring aggressively as distribution strategies ramp up - but the number of asset management and advice jobs continue to contract following falling employer confidence and market corrections. |
| | | | BNY Mellon has hired former BlackRock fixed income chief investment officer, Curtis Arledge, as vice chair of the corporation and chief executive of its asset management division. |
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