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BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
... index fund similar to the ESG Australian Bond Index Fund the two launched earlier this year. Benchmarked to a customised Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Global Aggregate SRI Select ex-fossil fuels index, the iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund is designed to ...

London Stock Exchange in talks to buy Refinitiv

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... largest listed global financial markets infrastructure provider by revenue, turning the LSE into the main rival of Michael Bloomberg's financial news and data empire. It would also transform the LSE, currently best known for running stock exchanges and ...

Much review about nothing

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... Australia's retirement income system has been met with confusion by some of the industry's big players. "Speaking at the Bloomberg buy-side forum in Sydney recently, the newly-minted Assistant Treasurer for Superannuation, Financial Services ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
The Bloomberg US Dollar Spot index was trading at 96.7680 on the day Trump tweeted the below: "China and Europe playing big currency manipulation game and pumping money into their system in order to compete with USA. We should MATCH, or continue being ...

Superannuation reforms underway

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... fix the structural problems across the retirement system and ultimately improve outcomes for members. Speaking at the Bloomberg Buy-Side Forum in Sydney yesterday morning, the Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology ...

Chief economist update: US recession in the offing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... particularly given Trump's latest bombshell comes in the midst of its escalating trade war with China. According to Bloomberg, Beijing has readied plans to restrict rare earth exports to America with Reuters reporting: "China's Commerce Ministry... ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
As if the world hasn't had enough of the overhanging pall engendered by lingering trade tensions, US President Trump is about to raise the stakes and expand the scope to currency manipulators. This I learned from The New York Times (NYT) on May ...

Chief economist update: A tariff for a tariff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... products imported from the US (worth around US$60 billion) starting on Saturday, 00:00 hours on the 1st of June. As per Bloomberg, this includes: 25% tariffs on 2,493 items from current 10% 20% tariffs on 1,078 items from current 10% 10% tariffs on 974 ...

Chief economist update: Countdown to T-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2019
... already started the paperworks to impose new 25% tariffs on an additional US$325 billion worth of imports from China. Bloomberg reports on the consequence, writing: "Imposing tariffs on all U.S/China trade would reduce global gross domestic product by ...

Kyckr improves platform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... countries, enabling users to instantly find company profiles, credit reports and filings. Kyckr's customers include Bloomberg, Citigroup and IBM.