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Citi launches currency product, targets HNW investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... Account (GCA) could help investors, including: To receive rent payments for an investment property in the US, directly into a USD account (the GCA sets up individual accounts for each currency) To transfer currency from AUD to British Pound and Euro ...

Chapmans passes on blockchain investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... invest in a US-based blockchain securities trading platform where it had contractual rights to invest up to about $5.3 million (USD 4 million). In February, Chapmans announced it had secured a binding term sheet to invest US$4 million is US-based Securrency ...

More victims of financial crime in APAC: Reuters

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... crime in their operations. In terms of a dollar figure, the research found that APAC companies suffered losses amounting to USD$166 billion, compared with USD$1.45 trillion globally. The research found that a lack of compliance - specifically in screening ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
Down, down, the US dollar is down (again). Bloomberg's USD index shows that the US dollar dropped 1.0% overnight - taking its 2018-to-date decline to minus 3.2% -- on the back of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comments At the World Economic ...

Superannuation savings reach $2.5 trillion

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... $2.3 trillion to $2.5 trillion in total superannuation assets. That's more than Australia's Gross Domestic Product (around USD$1.2 trillion) or the total market capitalisation of all the stocks listed on the ASX. Total assets in MySuper products also ...

Alternatives managers celebrated at annual event

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... Awards were: Best Long Short Equity Fund Macquarie Australia Plus Fund Best Global Macro/Futures Fund AE Capital Fully Geared USD Systematic FX Fund Best Emerging Manager Tribeca Global Natural Resources Fund - Class A units Best Market Neutral Fund ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... added: "Imagine the impact we can have if long-term investors succeed in fully integrating ESG considerations into our combined USD $75 trillion in institutional assets. We have a unique opportunity to make the world more resilient."

Financial advisers should consider bitcoin as an asset class: Dunworth

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... recent years, according to an industry expert. This week the cryptocurrency broke record-highs when it started trading above USD$1680 against the US dollar. As at May this year, the total market cap of the bitcoin market has more than doubled to US$23 ...

Australian pension market grows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... alternatives. Australia also has the second largest pool of defined contribution assets with 87% of Australia's total pension assets (USD $1.6 trillion). Comparatively, Japan and the UK have just 4% and 18% respectively. Australia has one of the highest ...

New hedge funds for BetaShares

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... them the ability to potentially mitigate or hedge currency risk. Equally, YANK is designed to offer investors greater 'long USD' exposure to the performance of the US dollar relative to the Australian dollar. BetaShares managing director Alex Vynokur ...