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IFM Investors appoints diversified credit leads

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2023
... Nunez and Hiran Wanigasekera as co-heads of the business. The duo will lead the team formerly managed by the now head of APAC diversified credit and debt investments Bruce Potts. IFM said the newly created co-head role will help drive the evolution and ...

Bravura Solutions executes restructure

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... Dunn and Chris Spencer to regional chief executives. Dunn, who has spent five years at Bravura, will step into the role of APAC chief executive. With more than 25 years of experience in financial services, Dunn has held senior leadership positions at ...

Interest rates on hold as RBA pauses

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2023
... inflation to target and will do what is necessary to achieve that outcome," she said. State Street Global Markets head of APAC macro strategy Dwyfor Evans said while the RBA rate hold was expected, the governor's statement was more dovish than many had ...

Barings prepares new strategies for local institutional investors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2023
... manager anticipates that the introduction of these strategies will solidify its status as a "top-tier debt provider" in the APAC region and augment the scale of investments per deal. Despite having been active in the private debt sector within APAC for ...

Former Schroders executive enters VC space

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... Anderson, Schroders' chief executive Peter Harrison, and Ken Hitchner, former chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs APAC. Nancy Zimmerman, co-founder and managing partner of Bracebridge Capital also sits on the board along with David Fischer ...

Billionaires of all ages watching AI: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... ninth edition, surveyed 79 billionaire clients from across the globe between June 30 and September 17. Interestingly, the APAC region minted the most new self-made billionaires during the period, at 81.4% globally. "At a time of rapid change which inevitably ...

BNP Paribas acquires HSBC's hedge fund admin business

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2023
... completed by the end of 2024, following the finalisation of client migrations. Elsewhere, BNP Paribas head of securities services APAC Franck Dubois recently spoke to Financial Standard, saying he sees "fantastic opportunities ahead" for the group's ...

APAC looks to data-driven future: State Street

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023
... quarter of the year, analysed responses from 520 global asset owners and managers, 35 of them Australian. Of the respondents, APAC investors are the most optimistic about the data opportunity. In the next two to five years, APAC firms foresee data usage ...

Inflation still too sticky: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023
... trade-off is longer time to achieve its mandated inflation goal." Elsewhere, abrdn head of multi-asset investment solutions APAC and strategy Irene Goh said inflation is "a little stickier than what we would have liked" although the downward trend in ...

Wealth managers seek better data warehouse solutions: BNP Paribas

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2023
... buy in tranches, tiers, or different carts," BNP Paribas head of institutional clients group, deputy head of global markets APAC Brian McCappin told Financial Standard. The growing demand for more sophisticated data warehouses, he added, is the number ...