Australia rises as regional accounting hub

JPMorgan Worldwide Securities Services (JPMorgan WSS) plans to use its Australian operations as a fund accounting hub for the Asia-Pacific.

The phase-in of international accounting standards was allowing JPMorgan WSS to cement Sydney as its regional “centre of excellence” for fund accounting, according to Australian business head Tony Winwood. The Sydney office is now supplying accounting for major institutions in Taiwan, China, Korea and Vietnam. About 30 additional fund accountants were hired over the past 12 months, and more would be added following head office approval of the “centre of excellence” status, Winwood said.

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Suspensions and redemption queues ‘speed bumps’ on private credit road: Blue Owl

Asset owners are right to be concerned about private credit fund suspensions and redemption queues, Blue Owl head of alternative credit Ivan Zinn told the Investment Magazine Fiduciary Investors Symposium, but he thinks that two years from now they’ll be looked back on as nothing more than a “speed bump” on a highway of growth and strong returns.

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