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Macquarie Bank names managing director

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... 1997 and became group treasurer in June 2011 before he was appointed CFO of the group in December 2011. Elsewhere, Ben Brazil, co-head of corporate and asset finance (CAF), will also join the executive committee from 1 July. Brazil joined in 1994 and ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... Group of 7 (G7) as the richest countries in the world. You guessed it Virginia, these are the BRICs - the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. They were all the rage back then, back when they were defying the gravity of the GFC and the European ...

APRA gets Basel III tick

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... regulatory framework to be graded by the Basel Committee. Others include the United States, the European Union, Japan and Brazil. The Basel Committee said: "Australia's implementation of the Basel capital framework was found to be closely aligned with ...

Australia's pension pool fastest growing in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... Asset Study 2014. The study showed found that the pool of assets has grown by 14% a year since the end of 2003, ahead of Brazil's pool, which has grown by 13.1%. However, the rate of growth slowed considerably compared to last year, adding just US$9 ...

New EM bond rater proposes fresh approach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... ratings agency network between smaller firms that include MARC from Malaysia, the CPR ratings agency from Portugal, SR from Brazil, CARE from India and GCR from South Africa. ARC has a combined 6000 clients. Choo Yee Kwan, country risk officer for OCBC ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... more than four times US lenders and putting them at greater risk if financial market turmoil in countries such as Turkey, Brazil, India and South Africa intensifies." And who invests in European banks? And what's the emerging market volatility doing ...

US tapering to harm key EM countries

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... Asia and Emerging Market Equities investment specialist Douglas Cairns said. Indonesia, India, South Africa, Turkey and Brazil will be the worst affected countries, mainly because of their current account deficit. "As we move closer to the tapering we ...

I spy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... broke that documents leaked by US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA spied on Brazil, Mexico, France, Germany and Spain (National Post). News? That's no news? Everybody knows it. News would be if the NSA didn't ...

BNP appoints new head of APAC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013
... in APAC and Emerging covers 19 countries and includes local investment management capabilities in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan and Turkey. The APAC and Emerging ...

Australian pension fund growth outstrips global average

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... measured in US dollars over the period 2007 to 2012 of 13%, followed by Taiwan at 11%, Denmark at 9%, Mexico at 7% and Brazil at 5%. "Australian funds grew significantly last year. The driving factor was their relatively high allocation to equities and ...