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DWS fined $43m for greenwashing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... prosecutors. In 2021, a whistleblower - former DWS group sustainability officer Desiree Fixler - came forward with claims the asset manager was making misleading public statements about its commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing. ...

Barings expands local wealth team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
Barings, the US$421 billion global asset manager, has recruited a sales director to help support its growth into the local wealth market. John Nicoll joins a growing Australian Sales team with 90 private credit, real estate and structured finance staffers ...

Pendal's Blayney lands at HESTA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
HESTA has made two new senior hires including a general manager of dynamic asset allocation and a general manager of information security. Former Pendal Group's head of multi-asset Michael Blayney will take on the former role with Nick Catherall ...

QIC appoints institutional distribution lead

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... as institutional sales manager. Before his six years with Schroders, he spent 12 years with BlackRock as a member of the asset manager's institutional client business group. There, he was responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with ...

Zurich Australia appoints investment chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
Zurich Financial Services has confirmed the promotion of its deputy chief investment officer to chief investment officer. Yile Chen replaces Mathew Drennan who has served in the role since late 2022. Drennan was promoted from head of savings and investments ...

Genium adds two staffers

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... years of experience, most recently as a senior principal in Morningstar's manager research team, where he was the global asset class lead for alternatives. This role saw him oversee research and ratings globally for the alternatives sector at the ...

Sue Brake joins Aware Super committee

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... expert and published author on investment management and risk management. A director of NZ Super, she currently advises large asset owners on a range of investment-related issues. She was formerly head of strategic advisory for WTW, an external expert ...

Magellan names infrastructure co-leads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... provided independent infrastructure research, which followed four years as a senior analyst within Colonial First State Global Asset Management's global listed infrastructure team. Previous roles include head of transport infrastructure at CP2 and ...

Anthony Doyle quits Schroders, rejoins Pinnacle

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2025  |  NEWS
... additional technical research capabilities within our distribution team and also deliver economic updates and strategic asset allocation insights to clients," Macintyre said. Doyle brings more than two decades of experience in funds management across ...

Shift away from responsible investing 'overstated': PRI

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2025  |  NEWS
... including corporate sustainability issues in their proxy voting policies and guidelines. And this is done across multiple asset classes now, too. For example, 81% said they conduct stewardship specifically in relation to fixed income investments. On ...