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Australia improves super system quality

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... sustainability and 86.3 for integrity. Iceland and the Netherlands were the best in show with 84.2 and 83.5 respectively. Thailand ranked the lowest at 40.6. The study showed OECD countries were prone to massive gender pension gaps, starting with Japan ...

MSCI reclassifies Pakistan to frontier market

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2021
... Pakistan was classified as an emerging market alongside other Asia countries of India, China, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Philippines. Now it joins its Asian peers of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Vietnam which are also frontier markets ...

Citi to exit consumer banking in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... number of markets including Australia. China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and Bahrain's Citi consumer franchises will also be impacted. However, Citi will continue to serve institutional ...

NZ Super Fund adds board member

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... KPMG based in Scotland. She has also worked in London, Hong Kong and Singapore and spent time on transactions in Korea, Thailand and Australia. Chair Catherine Savage welcomed the appointment saying: "Kirsty is a well-respected industry leader with a ...

ClearView streamlines underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... pursuing long-term sustainable growth," Lowe said. Other life insurers that have adopted ALLFINANZ Cloud are Prudential Thailand, Generali Indonesia, Hong Leong Malaysia and FT Life Hong Kong. US technology firm Omniscience announced in April that it ...

New deputy Aussie equities head at Aberdeen Standard

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... Robert Penaloza for nearly a decade until last year, when he left to take up the chief executive role for the firm in Thailand. Michelle Lopez, who joined the team in 2004 as an analyst from Watson Wyatt (now Willis Tower Watsons) replaced Penaloza as ...

Raiz shuffles leadership team

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... growth strategy in Indonesia and Malaysia, while also researching opportunities in other countries in the region such as Thailand," Fay said. "The Australian business will be led by Brendan Malone who has been group chief operating officer since March ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... Ecuador have damaged their leadership role in the eyes of EM investors, while countries like Vietnam, South Korea and Thailand are likely to gain from their effective, transparent policies." China, which makes up approximately a third of the EM index ...

The impact of COVID-19 on emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... he said. "Companies like Apple may ask suppliers to relocate in several other geographies; set up factories in China, Thailand and Mexico. "Supply chains right now are optimised for cost efficiency, but they are not optimised for resiliency." Yeung recommends ...

Chief economist update: Who's afraid of COVID-19?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2020
... portfolios at cheaper prices afforded by the current scare. More so, given that central banks around the world have already - Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia - or are prepared (markets expect the Fed cut interest rates by at least once this year) ...