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Chief economist update: The key to ECB taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2018
Not a single soul could argue with ECB President Mario Draghi's assessment that "euro area economy is expanding robustly" and neither with his self-congratulatory remark that "our measures have put the euro area economy on a solid growth pathway, driven ...

Most investors shun credit ratings: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... a security as well as ongoing ratings; investors can then access these ratings free of charge, the CFR said. The US and Europe have taken steps to regulate the three main agencies (Standard and Poor's, Moody's, and Fitch Ratings) to ensure more transparency ...

Aussie equities boutique appoints portfolio manager from Schroders

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
A boutique Australian equities manager has appointed a new portfolio manager. Sam Twidale joins DNR Capital from Schroders in London, where he was a fund manager focused on European equities. Before that, he was an equity research analyst at Citi and ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
Three out of three central banks kept monetary settings unchanged at their most recent meetings - what's more important is where the central banks think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Challenger flags new Fidante partnership, record profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... boutique partnership for subsidiary Fidante Partners along with record normalised profit. Challenger explained that Fidante Europe has formed a partnership with US-based specialist equity manager Garelick Capital Partners. Overall, Challenger's investment ...

J.P. Morgan veteran joins Plato IM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... multiple roles at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, including European strategic value portfolio manager and fund manager for the Europe Equity Plus and Europe Equity Absolute Alpha strategies. He was also head of research at the firm, overseeing about $31 ...

Former QIC director joins FIIG

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
FIIG Securities has appointed a former QIC director to help the fixed income specialist's growth and direction. Stephen Mackie joins FIIG Securities' Brisbane office as the director of fixed income. He joins from QIC where he was a director and an investment ...

Industry fund appoints Whitehelm as investment consultant

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... retained a 10% of shares. It marked Whitehelm's third recent investment in mid-market energy infrastructure in continental Europe. It followed the acquisition of SAE, an energy form waste plant in Norway, and Storrun, an onshore wind farm in Sweden. ...

Record high returns elusive in 2018: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... US will likely experience 3% to 3.5% growth boosted by the tax reform package passed in December. Economic sentiment in Europe is high; business sentiment surveys indicate 3.5% global growth; and Germany for example is booming, he said. Japan posted ...

Investec unveils succession plan

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2018
... serving as non-executive directors on the board," Koseff said. Investec did not announce if the changes will affect its UK, Europe, and Asia operations, which includes Australia.