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

Search Results

Showing 1191 - 1200 of 5763 results for "Europe"

Liquidnet and OTAS ramp up AI play

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
Liquidnet's acquisition of equity analytics firm OTAS Technologies is beginning to bear fruit for Australian institutional traders and investment offices, particularly following MiFID II implementation. About 12 months into the partnership, the ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... end game of US President Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies and diplomatic ones (an oxymoron?), along comes Europe adding to the uncertainty that'll beat the optimism out of every true blue investor. Suddenly the jokes that sprout following ...

Frontier appoints principal consultant

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
Frontier Advisors appointed a principal consultant from bfinance. Joey Alcock returns to Frontier having been a senior associate with bfinance in London since May 2016. He spent 11 years at Frontier before that as a consultant. Before his first stint ...

Capgemini appoints new Australian head

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... served in key executive roles at Origin Energy and New Corporations. Between 2002 and 2004, he worked with Capgemini Central Europe where he was responsible for transformation engagements. Pietschner has a bachelor of business administration from a German ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
The sharp turnaround in the All Ordinaries index from the 2018 low of 5859.15 points plumbed on April 3 to 6234.95 points - 6.5 points short of this year's high of 6241.46 points (January) - by May 14 it had almost prompted me to declare that 2018 ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ...

BlackRock names new head of iShares Australia

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... BlackRock's private banking and asset manager distribution strategies for Asia ex Japan. Obrist joined BlackRock in 2012 in Europe, prior to which he worked at J.P. Morgan and UBS. He will report directly to BlackRock head of Australasia Dominik ...

AustralianSuper recruiting new property lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... Former Frontier Advisors chief executive Damian Moloney was appointed to lead the strategy, named head of investments for Europe. According to Rainmaker data, AustralianSuper currently holds about $10 billion in property investments.

Aussie funds can benefit from FTA with EU: FSC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... submission. Luxembourg funds have about $US 4.5 trillion in net assets under management, by far the largest asset pool in Europe, FSC said in December. It is also one of the nine EU countries that don't have a double-tax agreement with Australia. ...

State Street announces fixed income appointment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... has been responsible for managing the lending of government and corporate fixed income to repo and financing markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). State Street's securities finance division in Asia Pacific is headed by Jansen Chua. "Regulatory ...