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AMP welcomes former PwC partner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
AMP has announced changes to its board, with the appointment of a former PwC partner as a non-executive director. Rahoul Chowdry will join the board, effective January 1, having held leadership and senior executive roles in the professional services ...

Morningstar bets on advice software

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... the product development and go-to-market efforts for AdviserLogic. In all, over 80 AdviserLogic staff across Australia and India will move to being employed by Morningstar. "The high-level reason for the acquisition is that with the fragmentation in ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
The world is only six years away from welcoming its first trillionaire, according to a new study that looked at the private wealth of the world's richest denizens. Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is on the way to becoming the first ...

CFS awards Asian equities mandate

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... attractive investments in this exciting growth region. CFS's mandate leverages Robeco's local resources in China and India, and offers a high-conviction, high-alpha portfolio of around 30-60 stocks," he said. The mandate will be managed by Robeco's ...

AustralianSuper hires from VFMC

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019
The $169 billion superannuation fund has hired a former Victorian Funds Management Corporation chief investment officer in a senior investment role on its equities team. Justin Pascoe has joined the industry fund as a senior portfolio manager, equities ...

RWC expands global equities team

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2019
London-based RWC Partners has expanded its Global Horizon team with the appointment of two new analysts. Benjamin Hall and Nathaniel Clark are RWC's newest additions to its $2.2bn Global Horizon strategy, focusing on investing in a portfolio of global ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... low of 1% at its August meeting - that came at about the same time as similarly surprising cuts from the Reserve Bank of India and the Bank of Thailand - while at the same time not discounting negative interest rates and/or quantitative easing. While ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
How low can they go? Be afraid, be very afraid. A great number of investors are buying into the relative safety of long-term government bonds despite their dwindling yields, and in the case of the Japanese and Eurozone 10-year government bonds, negative ...

Chief economist update: Race to the bottom redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... it to keep rates unchanged. This was the central bank's first interest rate cut since April 2015. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate by 35 bps to 5.4%, greater than market expectations for a 25 bps cut and the fourth cut this year. ...

AustralianSuper eyes $1.48bn in Indian infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... management and a co-investment pool of US $2.5 billion The fund's tenure is 15 years and it is denominated in Indian Rupees. India needs a US $1 trillion investment in its infrastructure, according to Confederation of Indian Industry. Earlier this ...