A former Nexus Singapore financial planner joins Guardian Wealth in Dubai, Mark Mobius nabs two former Franklin Templeton colleagues for his asset management boutique and Axa announces the retirement of a veteran fund manager.
The second week of Australia’s Royal Commission into financial advice was not a let-down after a jaw-dropping first week. Click through the slides below to see what happened…
Morningstar Investment Management says UK buyers are flocking to global equity funds as regionally diversified exposure proves more alluring than the beleaguered domestic market.
Tilney appoints a former Schroders chief financial officer to its board of directors, Aviva hires a head of global financial institutions and Brewin Dolphin makes several key changes to its Cardiff team.
Firms in Singapore are under pressure to hire locally, making an already arduous process even more challenging, not to mention expensive!
It’s squeaky bum time for senior executives as Australia’s banking, superannuation and financial advice firms face the intense scrutiny of a Royal Commission. Click through the slides below to read some of the incredible moments from the first week of the review into financial advice.
In the UK, many couples mistakenly believe that they acquire similar rights to a married couple after living with their partner after a fixed period of time has elapsed. In an attempt to bust cohabitation myths, Teresa Cullen, partner at international law firm Fladgate, looks at what rights unmarried couples have in several jurisdictions.
Australian treasurer Scott Morrison says revelations financial services giant AMP intentionally and repeatedly misled the regulator over advice fees charged to its own customers could result in “jail time”, a sentiment echoed by the regulator.
Swiss private banking group Lombard Odier has signed a strategic agreement with Indonesia’s Bank Mandiri that will see the firm extend its south-east Asia business model.
A masters programme for asset and wealth managers in Singapore is to give its students exposure to some of the biggest global firms by holding classes in London and New York.
Old Mutual Global Investors (OMGI) is to hand the management of its two Asian equity funds to the firm’s global equities desk headed by Ian Heslop and part ways with fund manager Josh Crabb and his investment team, International Adviser can reveal.
Financials re-rating, structural changes and deleveraging are behind an increased confidence in DWS’s overweight in China equity, according to the firm’s chief information officer Sean Taylor.
