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The fund industry’s latest mega-takeover has big implications for the two firms and for their clients in Asia. AsianInvestor looks at issues that the deal raises.

Prudential names new Singapore CEO; MS Amlin replaces Asia chief; Pimco loses sales trio in HK; Principal Financial appoints new division heads in HK; Gam hires distribution manager in Australia; Colliers names new Apac CEO; East Ventures names adviser.

Former M&G exec starts as CEO of new PE firm; SSGA names Apac head of ETF sales; Axa IM makes investment and sales hires; JLL adds Japan hotels team head; Intertrust opens NZ office; Bank of Singapore appoints North Asia wealth planning head; and more.

The financial giant plans to complete its intelligent investment platform for ESG this year and hopes the technology can be widely adopted by the industry when it becomes robust.

The insurance firm is handing more autonomy to its individual country CIOs and seconding its regional CIO to Eastspring in Singapore, as the changes continue at UK group Prudential.