Fund People Update

  • UBS unveils leadership team

  • SuperFriend appoints deputy chair, director

  • CareSuper welcomes investment implementation manager

  • Rest appoints credit mandates specialist

  • Aware Super appoints private equity portfolio manager

  • Qantas Super welcomes deputy investment head

  • Praemium appoints chief technology officer

  • Perpetual farewells portfolio manager, two other promoted

  • HESTA welcomes new director

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Fund People Update

  • Cbus CEO retires

  • ART appoints head of investment strategy

  • Cboe welcomes director

  • ANZIIF CEO departing

  • UBS appoints new head of fixed income APAC, welcomes back CEO

  • Pengana replaces chair, appoints new director

  • Antipodes appoints portfolio manager

  • Mercer promotes analyst to superannuation consultant role

  • ACTA Capital appoints MD

  • Legalsuper appoints new CEO

  • iShares appoints head of markets and investments

  • Frontier loses head of capital markets and head of alternatives, gains senior consultant and intern

  • QIC Real Estate appoints director of strategic partnerships

  • MLC AM appoints new heads of capital markets research team

  • Rest appoints head of investment governance

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Fund Product Update

  • Challenger launches fixed-term annuity

  • Vanguard launching super fund

  • AMP-managed trust moving elsewhere

  • BlackRock launches iShares ETF

  • eToro launches AussieEconomy portfolio

  • Chant West announces platform rankings service

  • UBS launches small-cap strategy locally

  • BlackRock and NAB launch ETF suite together

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Fund People Update

  • Aware Super wins Chant West Best Fund

  • FINSIA welcomes new president

  • FinTech Australia farewells CEO

  • New minister for financial services sworn in

  • UBS welcomes (back) head of APAC facilitation

  • Fidelity appoints lead portfolio manager

  • State Street welcomes MD of portfolio solutions

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Fund People Update

  • REI Super appoints board member

  • Cbus appoints head of investment options

  • CareSuper welcomes new chair

  • Lazard CEO retires after 20 years

  • CFS CFO departs

  • UBS appoints ESG specialist

  • Macquarie appoints global head of real estate

  • AMP Capital welcomes manager of real estate equity

  • BT welcomes head of product management

  • FSC appoints new CEO

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Fund People Update

  • QSuper/Sunsuper merger executive team announced

  • IIG loses head of capital raising and investor relations

  • Citi promotes head of capital markets

  • FSC and AFCA appoint life code compliance committee chair

  • AFCA appoints lead ombudsman, insurance, small business

  • Rest welcomes new CFO

  • KPMG appoints new National Executive Committee

  • BlackRock joins institutional and retail distribution teams

  • IFM Investors welcomes new board member

  • IOOF appoints chief asset management officer

  • UniSuper welcomes new CEO

  • Future Fund appoints board member

  • LGIAsuper CEO position filled, leadership team announced

  • JANA welcomes head of sustainability

  • WTW director of investment research for private markets departs

  • AMP executive retiring

  • Praemium CEO departs

  • ASX deputy CEO resigns

  • AIST Trustee of the Year 2020

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Fund People Update

  • ASIC appoints new heads

  • Australian Unity appoints CIO, loses GM of investments

  • CommSec welcomes new GM

  • UBS appoints sector head for equities and retail, food

  • MTAA Super and Tasplan tidy up executive line-up as merger looms

  • Citi welcomes new banking and wealth head, 14 new relationship managers

  • Equity Trustees executive reshuffle

  • HUB24 welcomes CFO

  • Future Fund welcomes equities head

  • Funds SA appoints portfolio manager for debt and liquid alternatives

  • Prime Super appoints new director

  • AMP loses more staff

  • State Street welcomes two new appointments

  • World Economic Forum appoints new members to board of trustees

  • Westpac bringing 1,000 jobs home

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Fund Product, Company and Regulatory Updates as at 4 June 2019

Fund Product, Company and Regulatory Updates as at 4 June 2019
  • Perennial launches active ETF with an ESG strategy

  • Legg Mason launches new ‘deeper green’ ESG fund

  • Moelis Australia launches insto credit fund on the ASX

  • BetaShares launches Indian ETF

  • SSGA to launch ETF model portfolios

  • Alleron IM relaunching brand

  • MLC Life appointed group insurer by Maritime Super

  • Cartel class action launched against major institutional investors

  • Natixis joins Future Females in Finance

  • Sunsuper integrates CBH Super in another merger

  • Blue Sky placed into receivership

  • NAB sells Ausmaq to German group

  • APRA zeroing in on IOOF group companies

  • Aurora fund takeover bid fails

  • Macquarie Securities pays $300,000 penalty

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Fund People as at 28 May 2019

Fund People as at 28 May 2019
  • TelstraSuper appoints new chair

  • Catholic Super welcomes new chair

  • SuperConcepts restructures executive team

  • JANA switches up the board

  • Equity Trustees appoints head of fund services

  • Citi appoints head of Australia

  • Mercer appoints administration business head

  • CBA board member leaving

  • UBS co-head of equities Aus and NZ steps down

  • Club Plus Super loses chair to Parliament

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Fund Product, Company and Regulatory Updates as at 27 November 2018

  • BetaShares launches first active fixed income ETF in Australia

  • UBS launches emerging markets equity fund

  • Vision Super divesting from thermal coal, tar sands, tobacco

  • Women’s Economic Security Statement 2018 released by government

  • ASIC extends relief for non-cash payment facilities

  • Exceptions made in Protecting Your Super reforms

  • UBS Securities pays $120,000 MDP infringement notice

  • Dampier Finance convicted and fined for failing to lodge financial statements

  • State One Stockbroking breaches cost company $500,000

  • ASIC now free to hire gun staff as needed

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Fund People Updates as at 17 July 2018

  • AMP Capital appoints new real estate leaders

  • Catholic Super welcomes new CIO

  • Two new distribution heads at Franklin Templeton

  • Contango appoints two new heads of distribution

  • HESTA appoints chief quantitative strategist

  • Centrepoint Alliance appoints new head of research

  • Frontier Advisors welcomes new head of real assets division

  • AMP claims director exits

  • UBS chief investment strategist departs

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