Bentley departs iPartners; MSCI names Australasia sales head Investment News | Investment News NZ

Thom Bentley has been made redundant from the Australian various investments specialist iPartners following an 18-month stint because the group’s NZ head of capital markets.

Bentley joined iPartners, which has launched two wholesale portfolio funding entity (PIE) funds, in November 2022 after serving for the same interval because the NZ head for Australian agency, Betashares.

He was the primary NZ worker for each the exchange-traded fund supplier, Betashares, and iPartners.

Beforehand, Bentley spent three years as head of institutional for the NZX-owned Smartshares following an extended profession in varied distribution roles each right here and within the UK. Final yr Betashares named former Smartshares chief, Hugh Stevens, as NZ director in a part-time position.

Based by Travis Miller and Rob Nankivell, iPartners presents wholesale purchasers entry to various property together with personal credit score, asset backed debt, property, personal fairness and personal credit score funds through a web-based platform with a A$10,000 minimal funding.

Additionally final week, knowledge and index supplier, MSCI, employed Shane Edwards as head of Australia and NZ shopper protection, changing Simone Bouch who left the position final Might after 4 years.

The Sydney-based Edwards “might be answerable for driving MSCI’s industrial actions in Australia and New Zealand markets, managing shopper relationships and delivering a cohesive, solutions-driven technique for purchasers each inside Australia and New Zealand and throughout the APAC area”, in keeping with a launch.

He returns to the workforce after a four-year hiatus as a non-public investor following a greater than twenty years in senior institutional derivatives gross sales jobs in Australia and the UK.

“He beforehand held a wide range of management roles at UBS, together with the Managing Director and World Head of Fairness Derivatives the place he led the gross sales of complicated merchandise throughout all asset courses to a broad shopper spectrum,” the assertion says.

Edwards stories to Kazuya Nagasawa, MSCI head of shopper protection APAC.

“I’m assured that his management will show vital to advancing MSCI’s mission of delivering companies and options that tackle the evolving wants of our established and rising shopper base within the area,” Nagasawa mentioned.