2022 award winners are:

• ACSA Award:
  • Nicole Carnovale, Northern Trust
  • Duncan Lyon, J.P. Morgan
• ACSA Service to the Industry Award
  • Marian Azer, Milestone Group

The awards were presented by ACSA Chair, Sally Surgeon, and CEO, David Travers at an industry event last Thursday 17 March.

Ms Surgeon said: “It is always a great pleasure to recognise individuals who go above and beyond in their work on behalf of the asset servicing industry, especially during the recent challenging and volatile period.

“As an industry body with a unique voluntary working group structure ACSA relies on industry professionals who give their time, knowledge and experience to advancing ACSA’s work. We greatly value the contribution of our working groups. Nominated by industry peers, these awards are ACSA’s way of acknowledge the outstanding contribution that a number of individuals have made to promoting positive change in the industry over the past year,” she said.

Nicole Carnovale, APAC Senior Product Manager for Data with Northern Trust

Nicole played a key industry role overseeing the revamp of the ACSA website in late 2020 and worked with great enthusiasm to bring the project to a successful conclusion in November 2021. She applied skills and focus to all dimensions of the website refresh including updated content, navigation, industry personas and a contemporary look and feel.  Nicole’s perseverance in keeping the review process on target and helping frame the right feedback to the website developer was key to achieving the quality revamp.

Duncan Lyon, Tax Product Manager, Securities Services, Australian and New Zealand at J.P. Morgan; Chair of the ACSA Tax Working Group

As Chair of ACSA’s Tax Working Group Duncan has gone over and beyond driving key initiatives, including the navigation of complex tax issues, that have benefited ACSA and the industry. Duncan has worked through technical and policy change in a collaborative style, encouraging input from the broader team. He has provided a key leadership role in drawing together considered industry views from fellow practitioners, driving consensus and formalising quality submissions. He consistently encourages a focus on issues affecting ACSA members and their clients through effective liaison with third-party bodies including ASFA, the FSC, Commonwealth Treasury and the ATO.

Marian Azer, Managing Director APAC & Global Head of Product, Milestone Group

Marian is this years’ Service to Industry Award Winner and is recognised for her significant contribution to the industry. This includes working within the custody and asset servicing industry in Australia across a variety of custodial banking entities, as consultant to the industry and in FinTech. Marian has been an active member of ACSA in various capacities including as Deputy Chair, Working Group participant, Executive sponsor and now, as an Associate member. She acts as a mentor to many young women associated directly and indirectly with ACSA across Superannuation, Asset Management and Wealth as part of recognising the need to attract and develop the next generation of talent.  Marian’s contributions have helped ACSA promote the Custody and Asset Servicing industry in Financial Services to be focused on enabling and powering the future of investment operations.

ACSA CEO, David Travers, said: “As CEO I am engaged actively with the ACSA Board, our working groups and taskforces. There are so many individuals who not only perform demanding day jobs, but who also step up to make a difference for our industry. Not only is this an amazing feature of our industry  it is in fact now part of the industry’s DNA. On behalf of the industry I congratulate Nicole, Duncan and Marian on their well-deserved awards, and extend thanks to all other contributors to the industry.”

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ACSA announce 2014 award recipients.

The Australian Custodial Services Association (ACSA) has announced four winners of the 2014 ACSA Awards, recognising outstanding contribution to the Australian custody and investment administration industry.

The 2014 ACSA award winners are:

• Marian Azer, Head of Global Funds Services, Product for J.P. Morgan Investor Services Australia and New Zealand,
• Daniel Cheever, Vice President and Head of Superannuation of State Street Global Services,
• Darryll Rogers, Manager of Superannuation and Regulatory Change, NAB Asset Servicing, and
• Paul Talbot, Business Development Manager of OneVue Fund Services.

The winners of the industry achievement awards were announced on Wednesday night at the 2014 Investment Administration Conference, produced by Conexus Financial in association with ACSA.

The ACSA Awards recognise individuals who have made outstanding contributions and demonstrated a high level of professionalism, knowledge and commitment to Australia’s custody and investment administration industry.

ACSA Chair David Braga commended the achievements of the award recipients in the past year, and acknowledged the ongoing hard work of the ACSA Working Groups.

“ACSA’s achievements are reliant on the collective voluntary efforts of staff from its member organisations. For this, I would like to congratulate and thank Marian, Daniel, Darryll and Paul for their substantial contributions during 2013 to the custody industry,” Braga said

Darryll Rogers, Marian Azer and Daniel Cheever were recognised for their outstanding contribution in the Stronger Super Task Force which was formed to facilitate understanding of the government’s Stronger Super reforms across the custodial industry, co-ordinating dialogue between APRA, custodians and the superannuation industry.

Over the past year, the Stronger Super Task Force achieved an industry standard to investment classification in line with APRA’s guidelines to prevent misunderstandings from varying interpretations. The task force also made considerable progress in reaching a consensus around issues such as achieving adequate detailed investment information for fund look-throughs, and treatment of derivatives and currency overlays.

Paul Talbot was recognised for his significant role in the promoting the efficiencies of automated processing in the managed funds industry, a cause he has advocated in his role as Chairman of the Securities Market Practice Group since 2011. Mr Talbot’s ongoing efforts to highlight the reduced risks and costs through automation contributed to the increasing popularity of straight through processing in the Australian managed funds industry.

“Through the ongoing dedication and collective efforts of our members, ACSA will continue to contribute to innovation and efficiency in the investment administration industry, and provide international best-practice for members, clients and the financial services community at large,” Mr Braga concluded.

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