Fabio Concesi joined Merrill's Lynch’s Strategic Wealth Advisory Group to help clients with USD 10 million or more with their estate planning and other wealth planning.
BofA Merrill: Investors losing confidence and ditching equities
January 21, 2016 by
“Investors are not yet ‘max bearish.' They have yet to accept that we are already well into a normal, cyclical recession/bear market,” says BofA Merrill Lynch's Michael Hartnett.
Natixis boosts marketing team with Santander hire
January 21, 2016 by
The appointment of Natalia García Martín-Andino aims at boosting Natixis’ Iberian and Latin American business.
AFP Planvital names new chief of foreign investment
January 20, 2016 by
The new head replaces Javiera Prado, who left to join Vision Advisors as institutional manager some months ago.
Banchile AGF forms team to compete in institutional distribution business
January 15, 2016 by
Pablo Valero, Banchile AGF's investment head, said the fund manager is in talks with three global firms, which it will represent in the institutional market. Economist Cristian Schulin-Zeuthen, an ex-BCI executive, will be leading the team.
Colombia’s Finance Ministry floats plan to allow AFP investment in high-yield bond funds
January 15, 2016 by
Another suggested change of interest to global managers is removal of the restriction on AFP investment in cross-border funds with a large shareholder holding more than 10% of outstanding shares.
Excel Capital, Chile’s newest distributor, hits ground running with Aberdeen, Henderson and Aviva Investors as clients
January 13, 2016 by
The firm is headed by three executives with years of combined experience dealing exclusively with global asset managers. At Excel, they plan to treat distribution as a core activity and give it the focus and resources necessary to keep the business growing.
Chilean AFPs intensify flight from North America; Japan and Europe strong
January 12, 2016 by
Allocation moves of Chilean AFPs in November affected products of Julius Baer, Templeton, Eastspring, Deutsche, Vanguard, State Street and iShares, as focus shifted from the US and Asia to Europe and Japan.
Merrill Lynch installs ex-Fiduciary Trust CEO in Coral Gables office
January 11, 2016 by
Teresa Valdés-Fauli Weintraub left Fiduciary Trust International of the South, an investment-management and private-wealth firm owned by Franklin Templeton, to join Merrill Lynch as a managing director at its Coral Gables office.
