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UBS adds fixed income portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
UBS Asset Management has hired an HSBC rates and foreign exchange strategist as a portfolio manager. Tom Nash spent 10 years at HSBC in Australia and London, where he was primarily responsible for HSBC's strategy on rates and foreign exchange for ...

Macquarie-linked fund manager shutters

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... government bond, equity index futures contracts and equity volatility index futures contracts, and over-the-counter foreign exchange forward contracts with exposure to developed market and emerging market currencies. According to Morningstar data, the ...

Super fund liquidity could be better: RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... were forced to pay more than $17 billion of margin to counterparties as they used currency derivatives to hedge foreign exchange rate risk on foreign-denominated investments. "Fund-level data show that funds with larger hedging ratios going into the ...

Foreign exchange brokers banned

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
The corporate watchdog has banned the sole director and four employees of contracts-for-difference and FX broker Forex Capital Trading from providing financial services. Forex CT chief executive officer, responsible manager and sole director Shlomo ...

Trading platform slapped with licence conditions

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... in-use notices. AxiCorp trades under AxiForex, AxiPrime and AxiTrader and operates a business offering margin foreign exchange and contracts for difference (CFDs) to retail and wholesale clients. The Sydney-based team is headed by chief executive Rajesh ...

Boutique manager hires from Talaria

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... African business. Jonker spent two years at Goldman Sachs in New York as a project manager for interest rate, foreign exchange and credit derivatives products and worked at Deloitte in South Africa and Chicago. Alphinity principal and chief executive ...

Chief economist update: Getting better, but not better enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... markets. Changes in bond yields globally have been associated with volatility in some other asset prices, including foreign exchange rates. The Australian dollar remains in the upper end of the range of recent years."...and like them, is pushing back ...

Citi names client director from within

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... newly created role of client director. Kan Liu has spent over a decade at Citi specialising in fixed income and foreign exchange solutions for clients. He originally joined the company as a personal banker in 2010. In his new role, Liu will manage Citi's ...

ASIC takes action on Union Standard

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... China in circumstances, the watchdog claimed, it was illegal for Chinese residents to deal or trade in those foreign exchange contracts. ASIC alleged Union Standard's conduct placed its China-based clients at risk of contravening Chinese law, exposing ...

SelfWealth launches US trading

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... the most popular stock markets, and SelfWealth members will have a US cash account to help them avoid per-trade foreign exchange fees." SelfWealth said that 6% of all Australia investors are now using its platform and it is the equal second-largest non-bank ...