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COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... very significant negative effects on the economic outlooks for EM, mostly leading to recessions." Countries like South Africa, Colombia, Hungary or Malaysia are more exposed to economic vulnerability, Amundi said. With the pandemic impacting oil demand ...

The catalysts for a rebound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... assets in Brazil and Mexico continue to underperform due to their weak COVID-19 policy responses. "In addition to South Africa, assets in Turkey, Russia and Qatar have all remained under stress for a variety of reasons specific to those countries," he ...

Bravura secures new mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... life insurance, and funds administration industries in 12 offices across Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Futurity is an independent and mutually structured financial institution and has paid around $2.8 billion to members ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... bond purchases and bought a record amount of ETFs... Central banks in Brazil, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines in South Africa all cut rates." And at home: "RBA cut cash rate by 25 bp to 0.25% and announced a government bond buying program to anchor ...

Investec AM rebrands

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
... specialist investment capabilities to meet the needs of their portfolios." Investec Asset Management was established in South Africa in 1991, initially offering domestic investments in the emerging market. Almost three decades later, the now independent ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 solves overtourism in Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... prevention - helping the weak link that could exacerbate the disease in Europe -- €15 million are planned to be allocated in Africa - as well as looking after its citizens -- €3 million allocated to the EU Civil Protection Mechanism for repatriation ...

Macquarie suit to lead Challenger joint venture

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... as a trader, credit analyst and in sales for the French bank's loan syndications across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In his new role, Benveniste will be based in Sydney. He has been tasked with building investor interest in Ares and raising ...

Asia is way forward for global economy: DWS

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2020
... Taylor said. "If you look at Latin America, it is quite commodity and interest rate based. It's the same story in South Africa. Turkey is very politically run and Russia is quite dependent on the oil price and global risk, whereas the Asian story is ...

New chief at HSBC Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... Martin Tricaud, who left the Australian chief executive role to move to Dubai and head up HSBC's Middle East, North Africa and Turkey business. Mclean has been with HSBC since 1996 and has worked for the global bank across Asia-Pacific, North America ...

Chief economist update: The PBOC stimulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019
Faced with slowing growth and above target inflation, what's a central bank to do? In the case of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), it's going for growth. In a surprise move, the Chinese central bank cut its seven-day reverse repo rate ...