Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1111 - 1120 of 5763 results for "Europe"

Boutique fund house founder steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... Resolution Capital was founded by Parsons in 2004 and invests in global property securities, with funds domiciled in Australia, Europe and the US as well as separate account mandates in New Zealand, South Africa and Switzerland.

Mercer creates portfolio management lead role

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
Mercer is growing its Australian senior leadership team with the creation of a new portfolio management head. It also announced the retirement of its chief market strategist. Ronan McCabe will join as head of portfolio management commencing February ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
Minutes of the European Central Bank's (ECB) 24-25 October Governing Council meeting confirmed that it remains on track to end its net asset purchases - currently at a monthly pace of €15 billion - by the end of December 2018. No probs here. We've ...

Inside Bennelong and its UK engine room

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
Thirteen months on from securing its first boutique partners, the UK business of Bennelong Funds Management is ready to scale up. But will Brexit get in the way? Speaking to Financial Standard in London recently, BennBridge chief operating officer Greg ...

Swiss manager invests in Queensland solar

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
A Swiss asset manager has invested $50 million in a Queensland-based solar energy plant, as it makes it first foray into Australian renewable assets. SUSI Partners is an asset manager based in Zurich that invests exclusively in renewable energy infrastructure ...

TCorp sets green bond record

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... balance sheets; 8% to institutions; 5% to trading desks and 3% to hedge funds. Geographically, 82% went to Australia; 7% to Europe; 4% to both the UK and Asia; and 3% to the US. NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said the "stellar result" enabled the Government ...

Whitehelm targets $2.4tn sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... seed funding. The investment vehicle is set up to pool pension fund investments in select smart city infrastructure across Europe, North America, Australia and other major urban areas globally. The fund will finance the scale up of integrated smart city ...

Guy Stern retires from ASI

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... appointed to the board of Standard Life Investments in 2013. Schroders' former head of multi-asset investments for Europe, Aymeric Forest, will take his place. Forest will join ASI in February 2019 to help lead the ongoing evolution of the multi-asset ...

October volatility sours investor outlook

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
... gloomy outlook across all regions. Global investor confidence decreased to 84.4 points from September's of 87.8. In Europe, investor confidence declined from 100.2 to 90.9, while the Asian segment fell by 0.3 points to 99.6. State Street Global Exchange ...

Star managers address low returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... market while L1 has a contrarian bias which is opposite of momentum; the portfolio has had more of its net exposure in Europe and Hong Kong as compared to US markets which rallied; and "truly-left field stock events", the manager said. The LIC made good ...