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Former BTFG executive named as TGG chair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
... will serve as a non-executive director, replacing Jenny Johnson who will also retire today to take on a new role as president of Franklin Resources. Freeman and Sethi will submit themselves for election by shareholders at the TGG AGM this year.

US investment giant builds out Sydney team

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... The new Australian Pricoa team operates under PGIM Australia, which also manages PGIM Real Estate Group. Pricoa vice president Michael Jones said: "Pricoa Capital Group is a relationship-based capital provider. It's a business imperative for us that ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... announcements - the BOJ, the Fed, and the BOE met in late January/early Feb. Few also gave a hoo-ha on Fedspeak - St. Louis Fed president Bullard and Chicago Fed president Evans both spoke about the economy and monetary policy (at different venues) last ...

Mexican pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... my bones but words will never hurt me". But not for Mexico, it appears, especially when the words come from POTUS. US President Trump's rhetoric about "building a wall along the US-Mexican border"...and making Mexico pay for that wall is hurting the ...

Rothschild snaps up former Goldman Sachs exec

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... Goldman Sachs for 16 years, also serving as head of Asian sales. Prior to Goldman Sachs he served as an executive vice president of Ord-Minnett in New York. Co-heads of Rothschild Australia, Marshall Baillieu and Gareth Cope, welcomed Acton's appointment ...

Financial advisers losing communication battle

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... as one of the big trends to watch globally. Kapoor first joined Morningstar in 1997 as a data analyst, and has been president since October 2015. He also served as director of Mutual Fund Research, as part of the team that launched Morningstar Investment ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... the "bad" ones are worrying, to say the least. "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." Is current US President Donald Trump repeating then US President Herbert Hoover's mistake, circa the "Great Depression" of the 1930s? According to ...

Finding economic winners in an unpredictable world

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
Investors who try and predict macroeconomics as a source of alpha rather than focusing on long term trends will suffer in the long term. AXA Investment Managers' head of Framlington Equities, Asia, Mark Tinker told the Financial Standard Chief Economists ...

Xero CFO takes on new role in leadership shuffle

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... follows Xero's chair, Chris Liddell, announcing his resignation so as to take up a position as an aide to United States President-elect Donald Trump. Liddell will be replaced as chair by Graham Smith, who served as Xero director for two years and chairs ...

Heading the ECB's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... weaker euro. However, this would also strengthen calls for "tapering" from the ECB. More worrying, this would strengthen President Trump's disquiet about the "too strong" US dollar. Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro has reportedly taken aim at the ...